Example sentences of "[conj] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be moved from this pit to others during the wriggler stage , or once they are free-swimming , and the parents will go for a further 6–8 weeks before considering another family . |
| 2 | Steve says the small scale dealers buy 50 tablets from bigger dealers , and sell them on weekends before clubs open , or once they 're inside . |
| 3 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 4 | Everybody loves weddings , dressing up , meeting and that , funerals , yeah alright we all get together again at funerals and the , after the coffin 's gone in the ground and all that , that really high emotion point or once it 's gone behind the erm curtains to be burnt , once you 've gone through that there 's that sort of erm |
| 5 | But it also has to provide the means by which a modern society provides houses and gardens — which the British love — where once they huddled in two-up-two-downs and the spec-built terraces which pre-dated the loathed Sixties ‘ slums in the skies ’ . |
| 6 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 7 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 8 | Where once you had Ghosts Of Princes In Towers , now you 've got Kingmaker . |
| 9 | But the practice fell into decline after World War I. When coppicing is reinstated in nature reserves where once they bred , the number of nightingales is likely to increase . |
| 10 | Where once you would have had as a matter of necessity a plot with at its heart some intricate deception , often unlikely , now your plot will arise from the characters you want to write about . |
| 11 | There are Houseparties on several other Greek islands , in Menorca ( with its own pool and tennis court ) , on the Algarve ( own pool ) , and at a lovely location in Kenya on Diani Beach , where once you 've gawped at the game there 's a centre to distract you with windsurfing , SCUBA diving and sailing just a few yards through the palm trees . |
| 12 | where once you woke and heard the threads |
| 13 | It 's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home . |
| 14 | Where once they lived on a beach now their home is part of a toxic wasteland . |
| 15 | Where once they fought pitched battles against each other they have now joined hands to fight the common enemy the FA and greedy clubs . |
| 16 | More than once I have seen a hapless opponent reaching down to scoop a front kick that never comes , and getting caught on the undefended side of the head ! |
| 17 | More than once she has unbolted the front door in the night and gone out in her nightdress . |
| 18 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 19 | More than once it has been labelled the oriel town of the upper Rhine , and certainly the multiplicity of those beautifully shaped projecting windows , so delicately ornamented , are a significant factor in preserving the essentially medieval atmosphere of the place . |
| 20 | More than once she has been asked , without prior warning , to sit down there and then and play an instrument — usually for a film sequence — and she always complies without a flicker of nerves . |
| 21 | Well it 's probably a good deal less smelly and bangy than once it was . |
| 22 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 23 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 24 | Similarly , getting too close could frighten the animal , although once they are used to the crowds they can regard the bars or the cage or the walls of the enclosure as protection . |
| 25 | We 're talking about a thousand covers , cos the actual extra cost of print once once you start printing it the run on cost is is negligible . |
| 26 | Once once I opened the door and I were knocked back and all me rent and . |
| 27 | Because they developed a system of mining , whereby once once it was the the the task had begun to clear the coal face of a certain er a certain area of coal , it did n't matter what what happened during that particular period of time , whether all the machinery broke down , etcetera , etcetera , you had to stop u until that amount of coal had been cleared off , you see . |
| 28 | Erm once that hurdle 's out of the way if it is a hurdle er once once we 've agreed on that er the next decision we 'll make is on er which company you and I think that you 're more be comfortable the environment in which you er we operate . |
| 29 | I 'll be fine once once I 've had another five minutes . |
| 30 | Well probably er probably do that once once we |