Sentence examples for once one thing from inspiring English sources

Three hundred pages of words have to be reduced to 90 minutes of TV, so something's got to give - and once one thing goes, everything has to be rethought.

"When we think someone is a great dad, what it really means is that we like the way they try".At pains to point out that he's no parenting guru – "it's always a work in progress, once one thing goes right, another drops off" – and that he is not yet the father he would like to be, he does, undeniably, have a lot of experience.

Once one thing goes wrong, everything goes wrong".

But you know how it goes: once one thing changes, everything changes.

Similarly, marriage once meant only one thing: the joining of a man and a woman.

A subterranean restaurant in a hotel once meant only one thing: a Trader Vic's.

"I made a film about animal rights extremists once, and one thing that was clear was that once they'd got into this world, they couldn't get out.

Pesto once meant one thing to me: pesto Genovese, the famous and fabulous basil paste from the Italian Riviera.

The visual and the literary make uneasy partners, since they operate according to different temporal regimes: everything at once versus one thing after another.

"There does seem to be a consensus in the industry now, that people once said one thing and did another, but now they're saying something and actually acting upon it," he said.

Robert Wennett, a property player who is trying to realise a Rem Koolhaas-designed convention centre, says that Miami was once about one thing at a time – tourism, gambling, retirement – but now is acquiring multiple layers: "You had a place with no culture that was just basically in the sun, but it grows up and becomes a real city".