Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.

Once in a while they said what a shame it was, with Granny dying, but they all agreed she wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Once the principle was established, the increase in state-owned vehicles came rapidly.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

Once regarded as an agricultural nuisance, psyllium was sold in the 1930's as a mechanical laxative under 117 different brands.

`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.

Once out in the street, the traffic was a gadfly maze in which he wandered stricken.

Once the figure was 30-30.

Once when she asked why he never went swimming and he answered, `` Don't feel like it '', he was tempted to tell her about being scared.

Once again, there was a negative shake.

Once it was, William thought.

They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

Once this was over, a massive development cooperation in the field of health and education brought in numerous civil personnel from Cuba.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

Once the pressure is lowered to the vapor pressure of the compound ( at the given temperature ), boiling and the rest of the distillation process can commence.

* Once such price ceilings become accepted, they could be slowly lowered, eventually driving out the landlords and worsening the problem.

Once this slightly sharp bar is created, the secondary and tertiary tones can be lowered by removing material from specific locations of the bar.

Once the cooker reaches full pressure, the heat is lowered to maintain pressure ; the timing specified in the recipe begins at this point.

Once the student possesses a firm stance, he will learn simple strength training exercises in which the pole is raised and lowered.

Once the acute attack subsides, levels of uric acid are usually lowered via lifestyle changes, and in those with frequent attacks, allopurinol or probenecid provide long-term prevention.

Once drained of water, the peat shrank, and the fields lowered further.

Once the rod was lowered a few workers were responsible for the attachment of a sling where the projectile was placed.

Once a particular length is reached, a reinforcing cage is lowered into the slurry-filled pit and the pit is filled with concrete from the bottom up using tremie pipes.

Once this was achieved, the body was then lowered and turned to reattach it to the rest of the weapon, and the PIAT could then be fired.

Once drained by the Muice ( Allt na Muice ), it has been tapped a little farther west by the Abhainn na Fhasaigh, which has lowered the level of the loch.

Once soil was gathered, the handle could be lowered to raise the blade off the ground so it could be dragged to a low spot, and dumped by raising the handle very high.

Once implemented, it will offer benefits such as: enhanced revenue through accurate billing and verification, lowered accounting costs, raised productivity and eliminated training costs.

Once a popular premium import beer in the United States, Moosehead lost vast market share in the 1980s when it lowered its price in an attempt to compete with larger US brewers on price instead of quality and prestige.

" Once the train is prepared to launch, a motor revving sound effect is played and its magnetic braking fins are lowered from the launch track.

Once lowered, the bailer uses a simple ball check valve to seal at the bottom in order to pull up a sample of the groundwater table.

Once the airflow decreases on landing, the spring-loaded paddle returns to its initial position, thereby allowing the stairs to be lowered again.

Once praised for its high standards, UDN has faced stiff competition in recent years, resulting in lowered readership and less money available for proof-reading.

Once lowered to the bottom of the interval of interest, the measurements are taken on the way out of the wellbore.

Once the locomotive had been stripped, the new electrical equipment was installed which included the transformer, the Stone-Faiveley Pantograph ( for which a section of the roof had to be lowered ), a Brown Boveri air blast circuit breaker and the Hackbridge-Hewittic mercury arc rectifier units.

Once in power, they typically cut government spending ; shortened legislative sessions ; lowered politicians ' salaries ; scaled back public aid to railroads and corporations ; and reduced support for the new systems of public education and some welfare institutions.

Once the diver is lowered to the sunken ship he finds that someone else has already been there and stolen some of the ship ’ s equipment.

The caged room from " Once Upon a Time " is lowered into the chamber and Number Two's body is taken into a laboratory in the chamber.