Once the front lines stabilised, a combination of barbed wire, machine guns and rapid fire rifles proved deadly to horse mounted troops.

Once destroyers became more than just catchers guarding an anchorage, it was realized that they were also ideal to take over the role of torpedo boats themselves, so they were fitted with torpedo tubes as well as guns.

Once again, the anti-tank defences were overwhelmed and about 380 New Zealanders were taken prisoner including Captain Charles Upham who gained a second Victoria Cross for his actions including destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades despite being shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and having his arm broken.

Once siege guns were developed the techniques for assaulting a town or a fortress became well known and ritualized.

Once the U-boat was vulnerable, the Q-ship's panels would drop to reveal the deck guns, which would immediately open fire.

Once in the city, they are nearly run over by Arabs shooting guns, led by the sheik Mullay Kasim ( Anthony Quinn ).

Once the guns stopped, the defenders had time to emerge and were usually ready for the attacking infantry.

Once in position they opened fire on the battery with their mortars, Bren machine guns and sniper rifles.

Once the P-47 caught up to its prey, one burst from its eight 0. 50 machine guns would obliterate anything it got an aim on.

Once the great shallow trough worn down by traffic since ancient times along the Old Road or Pilgrims ' Way appeared, the guns and ammunition wagons travelled on the firm middle way while the mounted units rode on either side.

Once you add ray guns and power armor to the game, you have a fundamentally different experience.

Once Quark is ready to discuss business, he is surprised to hear she is looking to acquire weapons: She wishes to acquire a continuous supply of " guns, phaser banks, photon torpedoes, troop transports, and a number of cobalt thorium devices ", among others.

Once the plane was approaching the British coast, they drew their guns and approached the cockpit, demanding entrance.

Once again the Italian forces attempted to get away in the hours of darkness but 1, 000 prisoners were taken and 43 guns captured.

Once Indian trader Joe Lamont ( John McIntire ) gets a look at the rifle, he raises the price of his guns high enough that Dutch and his men can not afford to buy any.

Once again the Afrika Korps demonstrated their superior tactics in combining tanks and anti-tank guns as an attacking weapon.

Once the reporter has left, Dawes tosses his guns out the window and sets off his explosives, destroying the house with himself inside.

Once the British had moved close enough, the guns of the fort and the Douglass Battery ( loaded with canister ) and several hundred U. S. Infantry opened fire, causing horrific losses to the British who were jammed into a narrow front between an embankment and the lake.

Once all were inside, they pulled guns on the twenty employees present and forced them to lie on the floor in the back of the store where they bound them with tape and electrical cord.

Once the guns were in effective range, the artillery opened fire in earnest.

Once he has gained Howie's trust, however, he pulls out the torn pocket and demands that Howie return the guns.

Once only found in expensive custom shotguns, overbored barrels are now becoming common in mass marketed guns.

Once the war was over, all Vickers GO machine guns were declared obsolete and subsequently removed from service.

Once the trackers sensed that the SWAPO fighters were close, they would often call in close air support and retreat to the safety of the Casspir armoured personnel carriers to face an enemy typically armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers, rifle grenades, AK-47s, SKS carbines, mines and RPK and PKM machine guns.

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.