The characters stumble around, grasping for words: "I don't know... once I... once I knew how to....".
Once I knew how everyone should sound, the rest came in a burst".
"Then, one day, I thought of, 'Lord, we don't need another mountain,' and all at once I knew how the lyric should be written.
I became so absorbed by reading that I did leave my mother alone to do her own reading, but once I knew how to read I loved it so much that I read everything in front of me.
Once I knew how to swim, and could successfully swim in the ocean, it was time to book surfing lessons.
I've been divorced once myself, I know how these things can go.
I helped because I took Poetry once, so I know how to do lyrics.
"The trouble with the jokes," Colbert said to me, talking about the ones scripted beforehand, "is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them.
John McCain and the media ran into a reality check in South Carolina, where Republican voters decisively rejected the Straight Talk Express and voted instead for the man who once told struggling workers, "I know how hard it is to put food on your family".
