Example sentences of "[prep] once " in BNC.
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| 31 | The most frequent sounds heard in the corridors of power at the moment are the click of handcuffs being attached to the wrists of once prominent figures from the old parties , and the hallelujahs of the young turks as they record victory after victory at the polls . |
| 32 | According to Dr Graham Rotheray , curator of insects at the National Museums of Scotland , Scotland is the last enclave of once widespread British species . |
| 33 | instead of once every three months |
| 34 | and then somebody else has it , so it 's sort of once a month or something it turns up and they have sort of an extensive thing on it , I think that 's the way it works . |
| 35 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 36 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 37 | In filming you have a lot of this to do where you read a script through once and then have go . |
| 38 | Think the whole process through once again . |
| 39 | ‘ If only you 'd read for once or play cards . |
| 40 | He seemed , for once , at a loss for words . |
| 41 | Just for once , a Frenchie has conceded that the Brits do something better . |
| 42 | I did n't think even that would be very interesting , but I liked the idea of old Peter having to bend himself for once . ’ |
| 43 | The dream drifted away , and for once she had pen and paper , made a cigarette and wrote until the alarm went off . |
| 44 | For once , Jay was utterly rehearsed . |
| 45 | Just for once . |
| 46 | For once they are dancing to our music . ’ |
| 47 | For once her motive for staying downstairs was not to avoid the bedroom routine — his request and her reluctant compliance . |
| 48 | For once he was underplaying his hand . |
| 49 | For once , both sides want to win over waverers ; and if Labour scraps the block vote , there is a fair chance that eventually the merits of the arguments will determine the policy Labour chooses . |
| 50 | In both London and New York , the play has survived the departure of Pauline Collins , justifying for once the usually pretentious term of monodrama . |
| 51 | For once attention could be focused not on its divisions , but on its policies . |
| 52 | The mobilisation of the militias has been accompanied by letters in the press , supposedly from members , calling for tough action against ‘ subversive provocation ’ and vowing to ‘ stop these counter-revolutionary actions for once and for all - with weapons if need be ’ . |
| 53 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 54 | But for once , the regular Labour conference task of reminding the party the public purse is not bottomless was put in the shade by the two looming Tory conference tasks of presenting the poll tax — and 15 per cent base rates . |
| 55 | It was an unworthily prosaic culmination of a momentous occasion in which , for once , the good in Welsh rugby was exposed for public consumption . |
| 56 | Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble . |
| 57 | This seems mainly to be because Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson — for once in agreement — refuse to admit the existence of the crisis . |
| 58 | BOOKMAKERS , whose intelligence service makes MI5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths , for once appear to have led themselves rather than punters up the garden path over the well-being of Travelling Light , the favourite for next Saturday 's Cesarewitch Handicap at Newmarket . |
| 59 | Bright new bonnets on show at the fair : Brett Fraser says that , for once , the London Motorfair is the place to catch a glimpse of the latest ideas from the world 's car makers |
| 60 | And he was tired mentally , for once he addressed a bishops ' meeting for a whole hour without stopping . |