Example sentences of "[noun sg] more [subord] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caballé , and from the past Johanna Gadski , who rather unexpectedly comes to mind more than once ) , and in ‘ O patria mia ’ the high C , the As too , are louder than one would have wished . |
| 2 | When you are told to move the lace carriage more than once ( by a succession of straight arrows ) , you are shaping the stitches on the needles to firm the pattern , in the same way that you slip stitches to and fro on knitting needles before ‘ purling ’ back . |
| 3 | Among the most prominent London citizens of the period , those who were elected mayor more than once , only a minority were of certain London origin , such as Thomas Knolles ( 1399–1400 , 1410–11 ) , Nicholas Wotton ( 1415–16,1430–31 ) and Henry Barton ( 1416–17 , 1428–29 ) . |
| 4 | Mr Enfield had seen Mr Hyde use his key more than once . |
| 5 | Did you have that dream more than once , or just once ? |
| 6 | You must take pride in speaking our beautiful language , ’ she had told the little girl more than once . |
| 7 | As this turns up later in the memoir , I need only report that , out of dissatisfaction , I scrapped the manuscript more than once , and therefore I did not show it to Eliot just then . |
| 8 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 9 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 10 | So all I could do was to prance about waving flashcards and realia like a second-rate conjuror at a children 's party , and try not to glance at my watch more than once a minute . |
| 11 | The results are quite accurate provided that care is taken to prevent small plant segments adhering to the belt and being carried past the sensor more than once . |
| 12 | I always use Flex shampoo and conditioner for frequent use because when I 'm working I may have to wash my hair more than once a day . |
| 13 | You ca n't use the same bit more than once , no . |
| 14 | I took the cliff road and the wind could be so fierce that it blew me off my bike more than once . |
| 15 | Tom did n't break par more than once or twice at Birkdale . |
| 16 | In herbivores particularly , but also in most animals and babies , defecation takes place more than once per day . |
| 17 | A survey by Living Magazine ( 14.8.89 ) which questioned 1,000 women , found that one-third had received obscene phone calls in the last year , 20 per cent of this group more than once , yet only 26 per cent had told the police , 13 per cent had been interfered with and 87 per cent of these kept silent ; 9 per cent had suffered indecent exposure and 92 per cent failed to report this . |
| 18 | Kee and his defence danced with danger more than once … this was a clear scoring chance which Portsmouth missed … |
| 19 | Kee and his defence danced with danger more than once … this was a clear scoring chance which Portsmouth missed … |
| 20 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 21 | Bridget also calls Nicolas by his name more than once , which ‘ marks ’ him for the reader . |
| 22 | Murtach was greeted by name more than once , and one of the Hearthwares bent to receive a spray of honeysuckle from a dark-eyed girl who ogled him with adoration , to the amusement of his comrades . |
| 23 | Overwhelmed by water , Charlie Mears , the London bank-clerkcum-Greek-galley-slave met his death by water more than once . |
| 24 | Yet I doubt they have meat more than once a week — and I doubt he thinks about money from one year 's end to the other . ’ |
| 25 | Above all , avoid flushing the lavatory next to the small sitting-room more than once in any given half hour or serious results may follow . |
| 26 | Belinda knew this because she had seen his photograph in the social pages of the newspaper more than once . |
| 27 | Nearly two-thirds have used the same type of credit more than once in the last two years . |
| 28 | I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't |
| 29 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 30 | I have referred to enforcement more than once already since I became president , and I should like to leave the Institute 's ethical support services for another occasion . |