Example sentences of "[pers pn] once [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had only met them once and they had seemed a friendly and most devoted couple . |
| 2 | ‘ If anyone supposes ’ , she wrote , ‘ that my power of speaking was a gift that came naturally to me , without any effort on my part , let them once and for all dispossess themselves of any such ideas . |
| 3 | Pamela washed them once and will not bother to wash them again until they are saturated with her own smell , not a bad smell , made up as it is of tea , musk oil , turpentine and taramasalata . |
| 4 | He had decided that it was time to think things through and settle them once and for all , but whenever he started thinking about Zeinab thoughts became memories of touch and smell and look and emotion and he became most unsettled . |
| 5 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 6 | He visits them once or twice a year when he goes back to India . |
| 7 | It 's quite well it 's fun because I you know the people and you see them once or twice a year and it 's it 's nice to see them back and talk |
| 8 | I have tried to ‘ phone you once or twice re APRS : please can you contact me ? |
| 9 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 10 | ‘ Her letters only mentioned you once or twice — in the early days — just after her mother married your father , and then only by your pen name . |
| 11 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 12 | Have you summoned the ancient golden strength , to bind me to you once and for all time ? |
| 13 | In In Memory of Her she once and again quotes Judy Chicago : ‘ Our heritage is our power . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps yes I did love her once but not any more . |
| 15 | I wanted to confess to her once but balanced that against the need to be loved by her . |
| 16 | Another 17-year-old girl kept up a regular correspondence with her natural mother and went to see her once or twice a year referring to her as an ‘ auntie ’ . |
| 17 | I met her once or twice , at church and at other houses where there were children of our age . |
| 18 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 19 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 20 | I saw her once or twice since , before the Coconut closed , but not for ages now . |
| 21 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 22 | She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’ |
| 23 | Threatened her once or twice . |
| 24 | Had he simply desired her he would have taken both her and the consequences then and there , booted that evil-looking brute of a dog aside , and made love to her , gloried in her , possessed her once and for all , on the hearth-rug . |
| 25 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 26 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 27 | I 've seen him once and will try to photograph him . ’ |
| 28 | Spurs ’ defender Neil Ruddock never played with Gazza but has lined up against him and he said : ‘ I 've only played against him once and I could n't get near him . |
| 29 | But then , instead of returning to the siege of Pons , he led his army in May 1179 to the enterprise which was to establish him once and for all as an acknowledged expert in the vital art of siege warfare : the capture of Taillebourg . |
| 30 | Mum had only met him once and that was it . |