Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many things were happening at once . |
| 2 | The committee reported in February 1943 in very alarming language that there would be nothing left for the British postwar aircraft industry unless something were done at once . |
| 3 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 4 | This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland , a state of war would exist between us . |
| 5 | We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence . |
| 6 | The police were called at once and the District Chief of Police , whose recent experiences had reinforced a strong natural tendency towards caution , sent immediately for the Mamur Zapt . |
| 7 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 8 | When they arrived they were taken at once to a private alcove . |
| 9 | There was , so the waiters were dispatched at once . |
| 10 | Caccini also set the Euridice text at the same time and both works were published at once , though Caccini 's was not performed till 5 December 1602 . |
| 11 | I was plunged at once into an immediate round of familiarisation of completely new and strange devices that were the work-a-day tools of Bomber Command . |
| 12 | I was enrolled at once in the village school which had two teachers who were sisters , one taking all the younger classes and the other the older children . |
| 13 | Prophete spent his exile in and around his deanery of Hereford until , after the revolution of 1399 , he was recalled at once to become one of the most active attenders on the royal council , doubtless to contribute bureaucratic flair to a government badly needing to prove its administrative competence . |
| 14 | He was sacked at once . |
| 15 | All subservient reaction was forgotten at once as Nessie yielded to more primitive instincts and rushed to the car to see her youngest son . |
| 16 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 17 | The staff of the Home were involved , and Mrs R. opted for a permanent place and was transferred at once . |
| 18 | It was answered at once in the basement . |
| 19 | She dialled Myra 's number and it was answered at once . |
| 20 | The phone was answered at once . |
| 21 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | It was opened at once by the Town Clerk . |
| 23 | It was opened at once . |
| 24 | The money was raised by once again ‘ doing your own thing ’ — through rallies , cheese-and-wine or supper parties , raffles , bring-and-buy sales and book-sales — all bringing fun and pleasure while keeping the cash flowing in . |
| 25 | If documentation was incomplete , or if inspection by monitoring physicians showed inconsistencies , the treating physician was contacted at once by telephone ( and if necessary by the local medical supervisor ) to verify any discrepant or missing data . |
| 26 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 27 | A doctor was summoned at once , but it was too late to save him . |
| 28 | At this stage a 36″ × 24″ × 24″ became available and the decision was taken to once again move the Chromides and Scats to the larger tank , as the four Chromides ( one had succumbed to swim-bladder trouble ) and four Scats ( three silver , one red ) now averaged 6″ plus . |
| 29 | At the warning wire everyone was talking at once . |
| 30 | Everyone was talking at once . |