Example sentences of "[coord] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't mind , but I was a bit dodgy on my leg and once or twice , walking from the gas stove to the sink , I spilt the hot water In the end , he said ‘ I 'm sorry , you ca n't stop here on your own , you 'll have to be looked after ’ . |
| 2 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 3 | There were hoof-marks of horses , and once or twice the slots of deer , and out on the very edge where the track was worst a narrow winding verge where travellers on foot had been forced to push their way through the undergrowth . |
| 4 | Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 7 | This circuit can be performed once or twice per week under supervision , and once or twice per week at home with recordings of the results . |
| 8 | In a sibilant , fluttering voice he read his reply from the throne in Annamese , but his delivery , unlike the Frenchman 's , was hesitant and nervous and once or twice he stopped to swallow in mid-sentence . |
| 9 | Year to year there are variations ; summer may start two weeks late , or two weeks early , or tentatively … and once or twice a year the weather goes into a sulk for a few days and refuses to co-operate with us . |
| 10 | Ruth never showed Rachaela anything — her art work , her homework or a book — but Rachaela gave her the use of the bookcase , overloaded now , and once or twice when money had been freer had bought Ruth books of fantastic art , Kay Nielsen , Vali Myers . |
| 11 | There was something savoury cooking in the oven , and once or twice Cissie came over , opened the oven door and looked in . |
| 12 | Despite all her caution , her wriggling movements made Water Gypsy sway a little at her moorings , and once or twice she stopped and held her breath , but no movement or challenge came from the narrow boat 's main cabin . |
| 13 | Big Stan , as he likes to call himself , is a retired physical education teacher and Langbaurgh district councillor who in the 1950s played outside left for Shildon , Redcar Albion and once or twice Darlington . |
| 14 | It must have , er have n't got all that worse then , here 's Tufnell comes up again , slightly faster than the other one , hits him on the pad or bit of that pad maybe , Robin Smith 's very close in there and once or twice he 's dived , he 's never quite sure whether off the pad or off bat and pad , everybody shouts at him poor chap , anyhow , catch it , a hundred and eighteen for three end of that one from Tufnell so he 's now bowled fifteen overs , two for seventeen that one was yet another maiden . |
| 15 | It 's not emotional blackmail — but once or twice recently , I 've felt that I 've nearly bought it . |
| 16 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 17 | Erm , and has , we have n't got anybody here who has relatives living in Canada , erm , but once or twice I found that people recognised that because , they 've been to Canada , visit relatives and they they they they therefore know and they they 've heard . |
| 18 | What I have said to Neil and Neil is honest but once or twice he 's said things and I 've said , no Neil ! |