I. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
once again/yet again (= used to emphasize that something has happened several or many times before )
once in a lifetime
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It’s the sort of opportunity you see only once in a lifetime .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
ask
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Roland had once asked her if he could help in the garden, in exchange for the right to sit there sometimes.
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Tex Schram was once asked why his Dallas Cowboys fell apart after almost a quarter of a century of football success.
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He remembered that his father had not once asked whether Tess had money or not.
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My mother is worried about Beate, but she has never once asked me how I have managed.
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She once asked him outright if he were homosexual.
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The nun had once asked him please, Mr Mayor, come out there and see how the people are suffering.
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I was asked once if it seemed real to me that one day I would be lifeless inside it.
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Rudi once asked the class to comment on a passage he had assigned.
call
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I seem to have mislaid all the friends who once called me Nigel.
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The pilots called once before crossing the pass to say that the visibility was almost zero, but they could make it.
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He once called liberalism a form of bigotry, but he did not particularly mind being called a bigot himself.
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This calls for good spirits and good morale and also a certain amount of what was once called dogged determination.
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Mike had once called her a natural non-drinker, one who enjoyed neither the taste nor the effect.
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The contrast could not be more stark between Spiro's Hollywood life-style and the North London suburb he once called home.
tell
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Abraham once told me that Ishmael would be the beginning of a nation - now I believe him.
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You once told me you wanted to.
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And he didn't once tell me he loved me.
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Some one once told me you had died.
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He once told me that he found a company of not more than eleven people the most congenial.
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As I once told you, I never knew where we were heading when I first drove out the Anacreonians.
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He recalls once telling a group of students to clear their minds and observe what was going on in the room.
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Some one once told me about him.
write
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No, you wouldn't because we've never met before, but once written , for ever smitten!
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He once wrote Jefferson that Catholicism was Hindu and cabalistic.
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Anne had once written a piece about prison conditions.
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Drosnin is an investigative newspaper reporter who once wrote a best seller about Howard Hughes.
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Alec Clegg once wrote a fable.
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I once wrote a column suggesting that Gov.
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BThe writer Stephen Dobyns once wrote a poem about Death disappearing for a time.
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Dad once wrote in a letter to me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cousin once/twice etc removed
once bitten, twice shy
once more
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Once more the soldiers attacked.
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Try calling her once more .
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And after the computer once more refuses to load the game, you type mouse. exe at the Cprompt.
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He settled once more on the ceiling.
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Instead, the Packers are thriving, proving once more that sound management is the most significant factor in sports.
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It remains only for these new actors to play it out once more .
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The sequence Coincides again after 260 days and the new Sacred Round begins with 1 Imix once more .
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The voices and noise around them became apparent once more , a tide of excited news, a civilized clamor.
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Their electron traps are bleached during transport but after sedimentation and burial they begin to accumulate electrons once more .
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Tireless, she came back once more and was condemned to death.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Once , when I was a little boy, I found a gold watch on the beach.
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Here's a picture of a convertible we had once .
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I've only worn this dress once .
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I remember once it snowed on my birthday, and I was so excited.
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She once called me a liar - I've never forgiven her.
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They had met once on holiday, so they knew each other slightly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brush tops with garlic oil and turn once more.
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In seventh grade, the problem increased once again, with nearly 22 percent of students identified as work-inhibited.
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It will be opened to the public in the next few years, once essential maintenance is completed.
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Nomatterhow he had changed - if indeed he had changed - that man had once been a sadistic brute.
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Some were hit more than once .
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The invisible flutter and swoop of black creatures, still furious with the woman who had once banished them.
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The school funding proposed by Wilson this year is once again the minimum required by school funding.
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You once let out the fact that you wished you were free of the burdens your family placed on you.
II. conjunction
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Once in the US, the drugs are distributed to all the major cities.
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I called Lara once he'd left.