Example sentences of "[adj] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do this once or twice more before giving up on that remedy . |
| 2 | Mrs Singh mentioned this once or twice but did not seem to set much store by it . |
| 3 | We 've done this once or twice before , as I vividly recall . |
| 4 | Well I 'll tell you this once and then |
| 5 | Ma maybe , maybe another once or twice er and I 'll h have the job done . |
| 6 | I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week . |
| 7 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 8 | Actually , I 've noticed that once or twice today . |
| 9 | After a while , doing that once or twice , you 'll get a real feel for it , and you 'll then know how to write it and , and to get it right . |
| 10 | ‘ If you was anyone else , I 'd say , get divorced , but you did that once and then you went and got married again . |
| 11 | At the early age of thirty-eight me mother sent me West Get up , said she , and get a job says I I 'll do me best I pulled on my Wellingtons to march to march to Kiljimock But I took a wrong turn at Charlestown and ended up in Knock Once this quiet crossroads was a place of quiet prayer Where Catholics got indulgent once or twice a year You could buy a pair of rosary beads or get your candles blessed If you had a guilty conscience , you could get it off your chest … |
| 12 | If it does n't , tap the Down , key once and then tap the Spacebar until it does |
| 13 | And it 's this journey from external reality to the profound truths of art , a journey which takes Proust through a series of investigations of the nature of time , the nature of the intellect , the nature of memory , it 's this journey which I must now attempt to trace , and I perhaps just ought to say that I think I get abstract once or twice from this point onwards . |
| 14 | I 'll commute when I need to , at most once or twice a week . ’ |
| 15 | They came to his home uninvited once or twice and they would waylay him as he emerged from work at the factory . |