Example sentences of "once [verb] to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mobuto had never once referred to his father by name or attempted to make any apology for the abhorrent crimes that had been committed under his regime . |
| 2 | Matthew concentrating on the steak , seemed impervious and never once rose to her bait , but James , it was clear , was cheered and encouraged by Jenny 's affectionate treatment . |
| 3 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |
| 4 | Rosie at once scrambled to her feet , the marbles she had in her lap dropping and clattering over the polished wood floors . |
| 5 | ‘ These plates are cold , ’ said Patrick Milligan senior , looking up from his place and staring down the table at his five-year-old daughter , who at once scrambled to her feet . |
| 6 | On the other hand it was a very swift descent from the heights of a collectorship to the rank of a common gauger for a man who had friends among the voting freeholders , and some of those friends at once moved to his aid , their resolve strengthened by Carrick 's complaint that while five supervisors were dismissed , the other four were quickly reinstated in their rank and only he remained reduced , while , according to Carrick , at least one of the lucky men had been guilty of far more serious omissions than himself . |
| 7 | Good grief , we had a practising Buddhist in once to talk to our RE class , and that was embarrassing enough . |
| 8 | " You search the scriptures " , Jesus once replied to his critics , " because you think that in them you have eternal life ; and it is they that bear witness to me . |
| 9 | A youngster of 3½ years once replied to my question ‘ What do you do when you think ? ’ , |
| 10 | ‘ I think it 's sad , especially here , to see the fields which once belonged to my ancestors . ’ |
| 11 | It once belonged to his father , and , before that , to his grandfather . |
| 12 | Roza — I had learned to call her by this affectionate diminutive — at once sprang to her feet : ‘ Husband come . |
| 13 | Fearing that Morris had stopped to watch him yawning , he would at once return to his work , and try to conceal his yawns behind his hand . |
| 14 | the unzipped valise that had once belonged to her sister Christine . |
| 15 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 16 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 17 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |
| 18 | ‘ I at once spoke to His Majesty , ’ Wigram later wrote , ‘ who quite rightly said that there was no use shilly-shallying on an occasion like this , and he would proceed south that night . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There was a lady once came to his house . |
| 20 | ‘ David Markham was once engaged to my sister Jennifer , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You will have a trying day tomorrow ’ , he once said to his District Magistrate while Chief Commissioner of Delhi ; ‘ You will be on the alert all day and will probably have a riot . |
| 22 | Once married to their daughter they averred , he would settle down and any scandal would soon be forgotten . |
| 23 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |