Example sentences of "and once when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 2 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 3 | In 1970 , his hard times continued : not for the first or last time in his career , he found himself in trouble with the authorities , being disqualified twice , once when he was winning and once when he was in second place . |
| 4 | And once when Maman was fretting over his painful joints , I heard Jean-Claude retort that it was better being a physical rather than an emotional arthritic . |
| 5 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 6 | He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone . |
| 7 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 8 | The two judgment tasks were practised twice on the roads preceding the actual test route , once when turning left at a large roundabout and once when turning right at an unsignalized T-junction . |
| 9 | I 'd only met Mrs Tuckett twice , once when she drove Billy down to university at the start of a term and once when she turned up to see him get his degree . |
| 10 | Needless to say there was plenty tricks played on each other and once when the summer was finished , Jimmy could n't get his trunk to move . |