Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both London and New York , the play has survived the departure of Pauline Collins , justifying for once the usually pretentious term of monodrama . |
| 2 | The entire class at DRAYTON were all laughing at once during a broomstick session in NATIONAL SMILE WEEK , GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR . |
| 3 | The number of stressful things happening at once |
| 4 | Many things were happening at once . |
| 5 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 6 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 7 | It was impressive , too , that he instantly stated his intention of returning at once to Shrewsbury , to help to clarify the confusion , though he seemed to be relying on his natural authority and leadership to produce order out of chaos , rather than having anything practical in mind . |
| 8 | I felt the blood rush to my centre — legs , fingertips , head all emptying at once in a rush — |
| 9 | She nodded , understanding at once what he was really saying to her . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Mama had a nice line in that , as well as Papa , ’ said McAllister , remembering for once to use the past tense when speaking of her parents . |
| 11 | For instance , in December 1506 , the Council , meeting for once without the King , was told by the Lord Chancellor that Henry , hearing reports from Kildare of rebellion in Ireland , proposed to lead an expedition ‘ for the repress of the wild Irish ’ . |
| 12 | Sixteen children ( 18% ) had faecal soiling with soiling frequency ranging from once a week to daily , mean 3 ( 2 ) soilings per week , despite some treatment in four patients . |
| 13 | He stopped frowning at once and smiled down at me . |
| 14 | ‘ Possibly , ’ said Dyson , feeling himself flushing at once with apprehension and pleasure . |
| 15 | Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world . |
| 16 | For his part , de Valera , prime minister for most of the period from 1932 to 1959 , pursued isolationist policies , economically , politically , and culturally , seeking at once self-sufficiency , neutrality , the restoration in part of Gaelic culture through the minimal enforcement of the Irish language , and the control of media consumption . |
| 17 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 18 | All looking at once ! |
| 19 | The summit also now has a television mast , which can but be one of the most visible of its kind anywhere in the world , serving at once both to identify and to pollute the poor Pic du Midi . |
| 20 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 21 | Literary studies in action approaches the study of literature in the same way that a comparatively naive undergraduate reader approaches it : as a conglomeration of linguistic and literary forms , functions and meanings , all operating at once and all of which have somehow to be deciphered in order to gain access to the text , and explained in order to facilitate the production of adequate essays . |
| 22 | When safe levels are attained consistently you may reduce the frequency of testing to once a week . |
| 23 | We were going to once but when it came to it you did n't have the money for the licence . |
| 24 | To paying at once , to sharing a room , to buying food for this evening , to waiting in this unpleasant parlour till she would agree to show me the room . |
| 25 | Had not concern been her prime motive in going at once to Mrs Browning ? |
| 26 | Prove that you can keep everything going at once with a crazy set of juggling balls — guaranteed fun after Christmas lunch ! |
| 27 | Now listen we 've got two conversations going at once here , why are you called Doctor , Vernon ? |
| 28 | Soon the place would sound like a factory with all the typewriters going at once . |
| 29 | Tobie , back in the villa and cascading with loud , screaming sneezes , had proposed marching at once to the dyeworks and shaking Bartolomeo Zorzi by the hand : le Grant dissuaded him . |
| 30 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |