Example sentences of "[conj] once [adv] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.

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1 We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report .
2 ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief .
3 Not quickly enough , however , and once again the night was split by flame and thunder as fire-sticks had roared terrifyingly close to them .
4 Under Holland 's direction the Forest courts were again revived , and once again an attempt was made to fill an empty Treasury with Forest fines and amercements .
5 The rain had stopped a short while ago and once more the sun was burning up the atmosphere .
6 Once more they mounted the dark steps of the building in the rue de Rivoli and once more the lift was motionless and the stairway light failed at the most inconvenient moments .
7 Again the curtains opened and once more the stage was empty .
8 Straight after the break Varadi was through again , but once more the shot was turned away .
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