Example sentences of "[pron] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had even experienced it himself once or twice , particularly while doing the outline plans for a church he had designed as part of a new mixed-density , mixed-income neighbourhood scheme , which had been well reviewed in the journals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He visits them once or twice a year when he goes back to India . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | I have tried to ‘ phone you once or twice re APRS : please can you contact me ? |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In In Memory of Her she once and again quotes Judy Chicago : ‘ Our heritage is our power . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | I met her once or twice , at church and at other houses where there were children of our age . |
| 12 | I suppose I see her once or twice a week — she comes in for a cup of tea , or I go to her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I saw her once or twice since , before the Coconut closed , but not for ages now . |
| 15 | ‘ I persuaded her once or twice to meet me at the ruined tower . |
| 16 | She said he asked her once or twice but she turned him down and he soon got the message . ’ |
| 17 | Threatened her once or twice . |
| 18 | The family were able to visit him once or twice a week . |
| 19 | She had read about him in the newspapers , seen him once or twice on television , seen photographs of him in magazines . |
| 20 | She looked for him once or twice ; even went one day to the tiny public library which was in a room with stained glass windows at the back of the Town Hall , but she could n't find him . |
| 21 | After speaking to him once or twice and receiving no reply , Hazel thought it best to let him alone . |
| 22 | ‘ Nicola had met him once or twice at various parties . |
| 23 | I had Mr Harris , the vet , out to him once or twice , and he gave him tablets which worked miracles for a time . |
| 24 | I 've met him once or twice recently . ’ |
| 25 | She had passed him once or twice , fleetingly , in the corridor , when all he had subjected her to was a brief ‘ good morning ’ . |
| 26 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
| 27 | But he alleged Ian hit him once or twice . |
| 28 | But he alleged Ian hit him once or twice . |
| 29 | You are sure you knew it once but now it is so hazy . |
| 30 | You found it once and now |