Example sentences of "[adv] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 2 | Successive governments have been very careful to ensure that the benefits bought from a pension fund are taxed only once and strictly as deferred earned income . |
| 3 | A circular type known as Clava tombs can be found at the northern end of the Great Glen , many without an entrance , which would seem to signify that each was used only once and then sealed . |
| 4 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 5 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |
| 6 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 7 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
| 8 | This fact can be used to advantage by those who drink alcohol occasionally perhaps only once or twice a week on social occasions , and not every day . |
| 9 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |
| 10 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 11 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |
| 12 | So fascinated was he , that only occasionally did he remember to touch her , only once or twice interrupt her to bend and kiss her lips , and forgot completely his need for a cigarette . |
| 13 | Dexter had met such relaxed optimism only once or twice before — either in evangelists or conmen . |
| 14 | I had only once or twice done jobs for high SenFed aristocrats or , for royalty . |
| 15 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was only once or twice a month . |
| 17 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
| 18 | Only once or twice ? |
| 19 | ‘ My supplies come by van and that 's only once or twice a month . ’ |
| 20 | Well , I mean , only once or twice and then , |
| 21 | When his sister emigrated to Israel , the Movement introduced a visitor who called in once or twice every week . |
| 22 | She forced herself to sit tight and retain a noncommittal but not overtly offensive expression while striped shirt talked about unit trusts and pink tie came in once or twice with deferential follow-ups or corrections . |
| 23 | ‘ We pulled him in once or twice for minor offences , but we were pretty sure he was involved in an armed raid in Plymouth . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been rather avoiding the flat except to call in once or twice to pick up mail , but I 'd a letter this morning from Rachel . |
| 25 | She , in fact did look at me rather palsely once or twice . |
| 26 | There 's a metallist girl who was interested in it , she wanted me to be her partner mm , went along once or twice but |
| 27 | They also went shooting together once or twice , and they visited neighbours in the district . |
| 28 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 29 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 30 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |