Example sentences of "[verb] once [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One one boy might have had the belt , say once in the week or a month , at Girran . |
| 2 | The first three instruments here are obviously not intended for the serious player but for the beginner , or to be strummed once in a while as a second or third instrument . |
| 3 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 4 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 5 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 6 | This kind of thing happens once in a lifetime . |
| 7 | ‘ The robber … dragged her into the middle of the room and , looking once towards the door , placed his heavy hand upon her mouth . ’ |
| 8 | When I woke once in the night I could feel the north wind blowing softly on my cheek , and knew we would have good sailing the next day . |
| 9 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 10 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |
| 11 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 12 | Mr Drumgoole , who is in his early 30s , was shot once in the stomach by two INLA gunmen as he sat outside his home in Hazelfield Street . |
| 13 | Mr Fuller had been shot once in the body and she several times in the head . |
| 14 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 15 | Kate was n't particularly fanciful , but Dara reminded her of a black panther she 'd seen once in a zoo . |
| 16 | ‘ Seen once in the dark , and cowled ? |
| 17 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 18 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 19 | And I believe we met once at a Stock Exchange luncheon . " |
| 20 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 21 | You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate . |
| 22 | In an extended piece of discourse , a common procedure , known as anaphora , is for the identity of someone or something to be given once at the beginning , and thereafter referred to as she or he or it . |
| 23 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 24 | You will only have to cancel once for the message to be understood . |
| 25 | Staring out at the low grey sky , the drizzle that had n't stopped once on the journey up from Wexford , she jammed on her hat . |
| 26 | It goes once round the sun every year . |
| 27 | Each piece of mushroom can be used once during the game . |
| 28 | ‘ Two n't hurt the lad to help once in a while . |
| 29 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 30 | Every now and again you 're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while . |