Example sentences of "[vb past] once [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have stopped erm , I stopped once for well over a year and er , I went back to smoking shortly after the death of my mother , who incidentally , died of a smoking related disease . |
| 2 | entered once for all into the Holy Place , taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood , thus securing an eternal redemption … |
| 3 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 4 | Isabel bounced once against the plump straw mattress , then made a frantic bid for freedom . |
| 5 | Again , do n't worry if you get slightly different results , as your assumptions may differ from ours ( for instance , we have assumed two sheets , two pillowcases and two towels per guest , changed once for the longer of the two conferences ) . |
| 6 | Ashley 's shoulders moved once under my head . |
| 7 | When I woke once in the night I could feel the north wind blowing softly on my cheek , and knew we would have good sailing the next day . |
| 8 | In the season just ended Ulster played once under the Ravenhill lights . |
| 9 | I played once for Scotland against Wales and got booed every time I touched the ball . |
| 10 | His son , ‘ Tiger ’ , played once for Surrey in 1978 . |
| 11 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 12 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 13 | Sally Dade trundled backwards and forwards in and out of the kitchen carrying table linen , candlesticks , silver and cut-glassware in a bath of sweat and giggles , while Mrs Stocks , who usually only came once in five weeks for an orgy of washing , wept silently into the pan of onions she was skinning . |
| 14 | The support which Gundovald received once in Gaul is easier to analyse . |
| 15 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 16 | And I believe we met once at a Stock Exchange luncheon . " |
| 17 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 18 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 19 | The Performance Committee met once in 1992 , commencing consideration and investigation of allegations involving breaches by members of the Institute 's Standard of Professional Performance . |
| 20 | His tongue stabbed once at her nipple and then he was raising his head . |
| 21 | She only danced once at the Bolshoi Theatre last year . |
| 22 | The door opened again and the Customs officer leaned in , nodded once at Nathan , and withdrew . |
| 23 | He nodded once in satisfaction as Isabel stepped away from Joanna and stood apart . |
| 24 | This happened once in my early months at the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 25 | ‘ A handed-down tale of how a vast yawning chasm opened once in the sky over the Forest of Darkness ; of how the people in that part of Ireland saw a glimpse of the true world of the Dark Ireland : the fiery furnaces where the manacles and the chains of evil are forged ; the towering Black Looms of the necromancers ; dark evil citadels and huge screeching night-crows and ravens ; the silhouettes of wraiths and banshees and hags . |
| 26 | Another beautiful volume was The Rosary by Florence M. Barclay which is a story intertwined with a song which I heard once on a record sung by Paul Robeson . |
| 27 | . ’ To the non-musician , the name Mozart means the archetypal prodigy , the boy who started composing at four years old , and as a child touring the courts of Europe astounded monarchs with his amazing aptitude for keyboard playing ; who at 14 copied out from memory a complex choral piece heard once in the Sistine Chapel ; who died in mysterious circumstances and was given a pauper 's funeral in an unmarked grave . |
| 28 | He knocked once on the door , and it was instantly opened , not by the black man whom he had quite been expecting , but by Pauline Simonescu herself . |
| 29 | Maxham knocked once on Georgina 's door and opened it . |
| 30 | Meh'Lindi glanced once over her shoulder then ran on , taking huge strides . |