Sentence examples for once could we from inspiring English sources

It's the natural course of events, but just for this once, could we not hasten things?

"We can't write checks the way that we once could; we can't deploy troops in the way that we once did".

If Winehouse's public life has already taken on a derivative feel - just for once couldn't we have a rock star that reads Thucydides or smokes a meersham or thinks tattoos look best on sailors? - her music has not.

Cataloguing their entire lives on Instagram, Twitter or whatever other web thingy they're using this week, they will, we sigh, be forever dogged by youthful misdemeanours we once could happily leave behind.

But we're not deaf, we just can't pick out certain sounds as articulately as we once could.

Recently we managed to save up for two different trips, just so that we for once could step into one of these pictures for real.

Because creativity helped me to change the shape of hope and once we could do that, we could do hope together.

"Once we could see we were not going to get any police officers from within the department, that's almost the end of the case," Garcetti recalls.

John Banville Bolaño arrived for the English-only world like a time-bomb, seeming completely inevitable and completely relevatory at once - how could we not have come of age reading this writer?

And once we know, could we simply "top up" our microbes to reduce the impact of such developments?

Once we could handle them we peeled them as we ate them, dipping them in salt.