Example sentences of "once [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember Ron Evans once half-jokingly saying to me : " It 's all very well , you know . |
| 2 | Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens . |
| 3 | But he was also boorish , sadistic and greedy , once personally overseeing the execution of 2,500 Moslem prisoners . |
| 4 | FROM cop to robber to cop again : Iran is once more urging its protective services , through some kind of joint security system , on the smaller neighbours whom , for most of the 1980s , it was threatening to gobble up . |
| 5 | With the economy still barely growing , despite two fiscal packages in the past nine months , Japan 's critics say that the country is once more exporting its way out of recession . |
| 6 | She said , once more trying her best to sound scathing , but sensing strongly that she was only half succeeding , ‘ I 'm glad to hear you have some redeeming features . ’ |
| 7 | But on the following day he had shaved the red stubble from his chin , was wearing a cleaner shirt , and was once more beginning to adopt a stern and over-bearing expression The Magistrate continued to give the orders which regulated the defence of the enclave , but in a subdued tone , as if referring them to the final authority of the Collector , should he wish to exercise it . |
| 8 | Health of mind and soul , the inner realities , were once more beginning to be acknowledged . |
| 9 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 10 | By July , however , both Wolfgang and Constanze were ill , and Mozart was once more writing to Puchberg for money , in view of his inability to work . |
| 11 | He is seen here a year later with his Tomahawk fighter when once more serving in North Africa . |
| 12 | We were once more experiencing difficulties hopefully they would all be out before too long . |
| 13 | He and Constanze left for Prague on 25 August , once more leaving a tiny baby behind , and taking Mozart 's pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr with them to help with the composition . |
| 14 | They chained and manacled their dangerous charge once more leaving him only sufficient movement to shamble and struggle along the ancient passageways of his confinemnent |
| 15 | Jesu , Jesu , thought Wexford , once more evoking Justice Shallow , the mad days that I have spent ! |
| 16 | He is once more distancing himself from the people of Scotland . |
| 17 | Player power is once more causing concern amongst those responsible for administering tennis throughout the world . |
| 18 | Seconds later she was once more revising her opinion . |
| 19 | It had vanished , however , when the woman returned to the parlour , the familiar peevish look once more marring her features . |
| 20 | The tower acknowledged him , once more ordering the Ilyushin to overshoot . |
| 21 | ‘ Unrelated , ’ the Doctor said , once more reaching for his hat . |
| 22 | Lizzy saw that Joey was once more skinning up and quailed inside . |
| 23 | Again he bowed , once more colouring from neck to brow . |
| 24 | In this lecture , " To Criticize the Critic " , he set his own prose writings in historical perspective — once more setting the past in order — but it is also notable for the manner in which he asserted the presence in his theoretical judgments of private feeling and experience ; phrases like " the objective correlative " and " the disassociation of sensibility were , for him , " conceptual symbols for emotional preferences " . |
| 25 | She sat up straight , her eyes once more flashing fire . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll see you at the weekend , then , ’ Leith said lightly , and was once more wanting to do something of a pugilistic nature to her employer when , just as though he lived there , he went to the door with Travis and saw him out . |
| 27 | He had closed his eyes again and was once more listening to his voices . |
| 28 | Piotr brings the succinct set to an encore-free close by introducing ‘ Sistine Chapel Ceiling ’ : ‘ This is the last song you 'll ever hear from us , it 's called ‘ Derek ’ , ’ he mutters , before once more riding that line between raging noise and delectable tunes . |
| 29 | That was something to cheer Christmas 1945 , but not quite enough and in the new year I was back again , once more taking the No. 2 bus from Summertown to Carfax . |
| 30 | Guido smiled suddenly , once more taking Ronni by surprise — and at the same time displaying his perfect white teeth . |