Example sentences of "once [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nutty switched her attention once more to the deep end , where it seemed that Nails was giving Jazz a compulsory lesson in turns . |
| 32 | Although Frank obtained a first-class diploma from the College , he did not find an opening in farming and his thoughts turned once more to medicine for which his experiences at College led him to think he had an aptitude . |
| 33 | As the blood began once more to course through George 's legs , his muscles went into spasms of cramp , so that they needed to pause every few yards . |
| 34 | Showing no more emotion over the death of the man than that of the beast , she turned her attention once more to tickling Edward 's toes . |
| 35 | The other important point about body size returns us once more to some simple physics . |
| 36 | panting as she fought against the fact of death , panting as she integrated shock , panting as she realized a need to re-enter Rose 's body , to deny her own life , to dissolve back into the embryo past , the womb , to disappear , to hand herself over once more to her mother , to die too , anything to stay with her , anything but this , anything but individuality , anything but aloneness , anything but a self without a mother , anything but Rose 's death . |
| 37 | They would claim God showed such a great love for people that he even allowed Jesus to die on the cross in order that his love might persuade them to return and belong once more to him . |
| 38 | In September 1767 Leopold took his family once more to Vienna , where festivities were in preparation for the wedding of an archduchess . |
| 39 | AS HE HAD DONE after his return from Italy , Wolfgang settled down once more to life in Salzburg , mitigating the tedium of his official duties — albeit on improved terms — at the archbishop 's court with a clutch of compositions . |
| 40 | The Five Nations Championship is understandably the envy of the rest of the rugby world and what spice will be added to the coming encounters — notably when England travel once more to Murrayfield on the opening day and return to Paris in February ; when Ireland , so nearly conquerors of champions Australia , run out once more at Lansdowne Road , and Wales begin their brave attempt to rise like some Phoenix from the ashes . |
| 41 | During that hour the zeks recross the railway line and the road and return to the Zone , once more to be counted and to be searched . |
| 42 | Here he rejected the widely accepted ‘ penal theory ’ , according to which Jesus bore on the cross the punishment which God must exact from sinners if he was once more to be gracious to them . |
| 43 | Altars were once more to be railed off at the east end of parish churches . |
| 44 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 45 | The daemonic legions would march once more to the aid of their new allies . |
| 46 | The promise of a new golden age of peace has faded , and the Elves and their new allies have looked once more to their weapons . |
| 47 | Before long Bill Clinton , who is keen on grand visions , may rediscover these ideas and start trying to apply them once more to the global economy . |
| 48 | Immediately after this vote , the Council turned its attention once more to ‘ Schema 13 ’ , now denominated by the Co-ordinating Commission , a ‘ Pastoral Constitution ’ . |
| 49 | Turning once more to the campaign surrounding The Little Red Schoolbook this point should become clear . |
| 50 | Broomhead shifted his position on the cart and urged his horse on once more to no effect . |
| 51 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
| 52 | But in fashion all is change and revolution , and the wheel has come round once more to his brilliant colours and exaggerated silhouettes . |
| 53 | Back at the table I was in crepuscular mood for a few minutes , then bent once more to the task of diverting the wedding guests . |
| 54 | In May 1469 Edward tried again , turning once more to the resources of the duchy of Lancaster . |
| 55 | After a couple of decades in English hands , Hermitage came back once more to the Douglases . |
| 56 | But once she had tried it on , her spirits sank once more to unprecedented depths . |
| 57 | He had been urged by his doctor to escape the English winter and at the end of the year he went once more to South Africa for a ten-week holiday , sailing to Durban and then proceeding in a leisurely fashion to Cape Town . |
| 58 | On his return to London in June , however , he caught a cold which aggravated his emphysema and his doctor advised him to go once more to Brighton in order to recuperate . |
| 59 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |
| 60 | The French now seemed fully committed once more to a future of European co-operation . |