Example sentences of "[noun sg] once [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat , 43 , turns travel agent once a year to take a vote among neighbours where they want to go . |
| 2 | At first he had felt a little out of place , but had finally arranged to play football once a week with other members of the centre . |
| 3 | As I write this the survivors are eight days old , and being fed Brineshrimp once a day , and powdered flake or powdered High Protein once a day . |
| 4 | It is no good going to a dog training club once a week and forgetting about it the rest of the week . |
| 5 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 6 | Wick waits , remembering the herring more recently ; the lovely old buildings stare blankly over the vast harbour once a forest of masts . |
| 7 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 8 | I think it 'll have to be put in the garage and then put in the car once a week or something . |
| 9 | Even where a bituminous felt layer was laid on top of the boarding , this form of construction is likely to compound problems of rainwater penetration once a gap appears in the roof covering because the water which enters , instead of draining out of the construction at the eaves , settles on the upper edges of the local slate-fixing battens , inducing rot both in them and the boarding . |
| 10 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 11 | All they need to do is go up to the loft once a year and shovel them into a polythene bag ; they make excellent compost . |
| 12 | And so we all had a close shave once a term . |
| 13 | The kind of promises each party to the contract makes will vary , but one fairly typical example is for the teenager to promise to tidy his bedroom once a week , to let parents know when he will be late home from school or where he is and who he is with when he goes out . |
| 14 | Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year . |
| 15 | He says they have an othapedic surgeon who comes to the practice once a months , so she could be treated within eight weeks . |
| 16 | I think a minister has the right to take his pleasure once a week in a football stadium . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't used to like going to college once a week . |
| 18 | For a very frail person , coming in to assist with eating tea once a week might be a family contribution . |
| 19 | As I understand it , the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy — she gets half his dough . |
| 20 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 21 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 22 | Never skip your conditioning routine and use an intensive remoisturiser once a week . |
| 23 | As Table 3.4 shows , most of the women shop six times a week , only four shop two or three times a week , and no housewife does all her shopping once a week . |
| 24 | All except two of these forty women do their ‘ big ’ shopping once a week — that is , stocking up on goods like sugar , flour , etc. — and it is customary to combine this with shopping for the weekend . |
| 25 | But soon they too would be absorbed by the world of the camp , know their way about it in their sleep , do the washing-up and water-carrying once a week , or walk about like negroes in G-strings made out of a towel . |
| 26 | and er I 've discussed this before and I 've come to the conclusion that these children who come along with Jehovah 's Witnesses knocking on your door they 're more affected than any child once a year practising whatever you like to call it Halloween or whatever . |
| 27 | Gloria and Dot went down to the Town Hall once a fortnight to collect Dot 's vitamin ration . |
| 28 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |
| 29 | This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week . |
| 30 | Barrels of drinking water were delivered from the village once a week . |