Example sentences of "[prep] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In filming you have a lot of this to do where you read a script through once and then have go . |
| 2 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |
| 3 | Another possibility that I have experimented with once or twice is creating a monogram in flowers . |
| 4 | My father was maybe in once or twice when I was a boy and he was maybe buying a horse and that but he was very seldom out of the island that I mind . |
| 5 | Most of the schools welcomed parents hearing children read , from once or twice weekly to nightly . |
| 6 | It feels like whoring sometimes , only I do n't do it for myself , except once or twice to save my life . ’ |
| 7 | It is a good idea to turn the main stopcock off and on once or twice each year to keep its mechanism free and not wait for an emergency to discover that it has jammed open . |
| 8 | You can then reduce the skin brushing to two or three times a week and the massage to once or twice a week . |
| 9 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |
| 10 | The frequency of waking fell to once or twice a week by the final session |
| 11 | It 's down to once or twice a term … |
| 12 | I mean , he had to once or twice correct the emphasis of what he was saying . |
| 13 | Do n't all shout at once but just could somebody go and do it right okay . |
| 14 | They did n't all let go at once but only when they could hold on no longer . |
| 15 | Not at once but quite soon . |
| 16 | When I knit the waistband of a skirt ( using separate method ) , I return the skirt in two halves , but , as Val reminded me the other day , it is quicker to do it all at once and here is the method : — Join back seam ( sideways knitted skirt ) or all seams . |
| 17 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 18 | But Tyrion could not be everywhere at once and slowly the weight of numbers turned the battle against the High Elves . |
| 19 | This , in a classic demonstration of how to cover someone else 's chart biggie , becomes , from the opening gurgling , at once and unmistakably the sole property of The Fall . |
| 20 | The eyes fastened on Dinah at once and scarcely left her . |
| 21 | ‘ Shih Clarac , ’ he answered , distancing the man at once and subtly reminding him of their relative status . |
| 22 | rocks at once and ever It flung up |
| 23 | Time is condensed into a moment and unleashed to infinity ( ‘ at once and ever … momently ’ ) . |
| 24 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 25 | At the Chester Beatty Institute , it was suggested that nitrogen mustards might alkylate two adjacent molecules at once and so link them together . |
| 26 | To doubt is to waver between the two , to believe and disbelieve at once and so to be ‘ in two minds ’ . |
| 27 | ( It would clearly be a mistake to spend it all at once and then not be able to advertise for the rest of the year . ) |
| 28 | We will take coffee at once and then I intend to show her over the house . |
| 29 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 30 | A second attempt is made at once and now , out left , he can actually talk to the guide approaching along the crest . |