Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little room at the end of the paddock , where scores are received , became for once the centre of attraction . ’ |
| 2 | Jones , although supported by most official opinion , failed for once to influence Baldwin directly . |
| 3 | Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf . |
| 4 | Noreen looked to her but Carmella rose at once and followed out after Mick and Joey at the opposite side . |
| 5 | Rachel rose at once . |
| 6 | They rose at once , and went . |
| 7 | Therese rose at once . |
| 8 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 9 | They rose at once , extremely eagerly , shaking out their skirts and smoothing their waists with graceful gestures . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't see , ’ she contradicted at once , her manner suddenly earnest . |
| 11 | Maria moved at once to her mother . |
| 12 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 13 | The votes had little constitutional force ( although Iceland , for instance , moved at once to establish diplomatic relations with Lithuania ) . |
| 14 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 15 | But she moved at once and stood below the pounding clanking mesh wheel , looking up . |
| 16 | ‘ Christmas ! ’ both Belinda and Faye exclaimed at once . |
| 17 | They caught at once , not smouldering , but a crackling , merry fire that swept hungrily up the wooden dresser , devouring candles , paper serviettes and spurting brief but splendid fireworks from a box of matches . |
| 18 | The rest made Malta where on landing one aircraft 's engine stopped at once as all its fuel had gone . |
| 19 | She stopped at once . |
| 20 | The game stopped at once . |
| 21 | The piglets slowed their headlong gallop to a trot , then , as though controlled by telepathy , they all stopped at once and stood in a pink group in one corner , |
| 22 | Its view of a more civilized order involved at once the removal of unreasonable restraints and the sensible management of the necessary political and economic framework of life . |
| 23 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 24 | But Theda 's face changed at once , and she pulled back . |
| 25 | When tracing the various political , constitutional and religious developments which made the age of Walpole very different from the Restoration , we shall discover not one watershed when everything changed at once , but rather a series of discrete chronologies of change . |
| 26 | Between them , he discerned at once , there could flourish no hint of fellowship . |
| 27 | Lydia , who had quite often been subjected to this experience , twigged at once . |
| 28 | ‘ Three cheers for the hedgehog ! ’ cried the ducks , and all the creatures shouted at once : ‘ Hip , hip , hooray ! |
| 29 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just had a dreadful thought , ’ said Chrissie , her eyes wide with foreboding and an ominous throb in her voice which seemed for once totally natural . |