Example sentences of "[verb] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wonderfully kind and maternal to me , as she has once or twice been before . |
| 2 | Thereafter he took heed from being dropped once or twice , and soon established a permanent place in the team . |
| 3 | The Wallises report that the telephone regularly rings once or twice and then stops before they can answer it . |
| 4 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 5 | He pauses once and then hesitates again before making the statement , " I " m a great admirer of yours " ( p. 58 ) and the level of formality he uses to introduce himself ( giving his own name after using the formal vocative " Mr Crisp " to gain his attention ) is absurdly high for the situation . |
| 6 | Unidentified actress , perhaps the ‘ Miss Shirreff ’ mentioned once or twice in the Diaries of the actor William Macready ( 1793–1873 ) . |
| 7 | It is rather sad that due to the subsequent rather narrow defeat of the motion that we find that such a large complement of Northern Labour MPs absented themselves from such a vital environmental vote due to prior engagements and by doing so thus failed to support their Labour colleague Kevin McNamara , the sponsor of the Bill , and failed to contribute to ending once and forever this sickening , depraved social pastime . |
| 8 | I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove . |
| 9 | He tried once or twice before hopping to the farmhouse , wincing in pain whenever he jolted the injured ankle . |
| 10 | Most papers changed once or twice . |
| 11 | In the other three cases where direct support was given , the client was not thought to need extra help ; the development officer felt however that the informal carer needed support and she therefore visited once or twice a week for that purpose . |
| 12 | Arghatun was speaking again , and he gestured once or twice in the direction of Rostov and the others so that it was clear that he was making a report . |
| 13 | The responses were later grouped into three categories : ( a ) never smoker — ‘ I have never smoked a cigarette , not even a puff ’ ; ( b ) tried but stopped — ‘ I have only ever tried smoking once or twice but I do n't smoke now , ’ or ‘ I used to smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke now ’ ; ( c ) current smoker — ‘ I smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke as much as one cigarette a week ’ or ‘ I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week , ’ or ‘ I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week . ’ |
| 14 | Homer does not go overboard for the stereotype of the well-meaning , but stressed carer who may snap once or twice out of exasperation . |
| 15 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 16 | The Congress , which partly superseded the former USSR Supreme Soviet , is elected for a five-year term and convenes once or twice a year to decide on major constitutional , political and socio-economic questions . |
| 17 | Apparently they 've been a bit disturbed once or twice , recently . ’ |
| 18 | The process of change is not something which is done once and then stops . |
| 19 | Because each treatment occurs once and only once in each block , the response to a treatment averaged over the blocks is a valid measure of the effect of that treatment ( and , less important , the block averages are valid measures of the block effects ) . |
| 20 | ( d ) Should the class teacher disagree , at least in part , with the way the film teaches something , the film may be seen once and then abandoned . |
| 21 | Among others there was the Scottish advocate ( and future QC and Conservative MP ) Nicholas Fairbairn , a sartorial dandy with a razor-sharp mind whom I had met once or twice in the Borders . |
| 22 | She needed a backing guitarist and asked Kieran , who she had met once or twice on the road , would he help out . |
| 23 | Most of the fires are dry leaf fires , made for smoke , they puff once or twice and then go out . |
| 24 | The profit of the company is partially shared with employees and a payment made once or twice a year . |
| 25 | It 's the kind of mistake you 'll only make once or twice , I suppose , but it would be simpler if , when you enter the CUSTOMER invoice section , the program asked whether you wanted to print the invoice , and gave you the option of which one to use , or asked whether the invoice had already been raised . |
| 26 | If you go into a panic because fish scratch once or twice , and start throwing copper treatments or large water changes about , forget butterflies . |
| 27 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 28 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 29 | I mean once or twice when we unload it the beer barrel break and when they , be surprised you 'd never get it back together again . |
| 30 | I have n't done , I 've been invited to go once or twice and I |