Sentence examples for once the first time from inspiring English sources

Only once, the first time he held the lead going into the final round, has he lost the tournament.

David Levy, whose bots have won the bronze prize twice, has managed to fool a judge just once: "The first time I won was 1997.

In 1969, when Lucinda was in the tenth grade, she was suspended from high school more than once — the first time for refusing to pledge allegiance to the flag — and her father eventually assumed the responsibility of completing her education.

Having seen the Oxford quartet once the first time around – when they were poster boys for the short-lived but much-loved "shoegazing" movement – I recall them being good, but not great, as they sounded on Saturday.

Each claim was coded once – the first time it was encountered.

It does this through software on the client side that the listener must install once the first time they listen to a Podbridge-wrapped podcast.

And, if you don't get out, I'll hire boys who hit only once — the second time they'll be pounding the nails into your coffin.

We went on it twice in a row - the first time Shay's mouth (and probably eyes) didn't shut once; the second time the cries coming from his mouth were unbroken, changing only in decibel of delight.

I think I said it once the second time, and I don't think I said it the third time, and he was very unhappy that I didn't, so I was like, "OK, it's maybe good for me to not say it back".

On January 13, he saw all four at once for the first time, but had seen each of the moons before this date at least once.

As the governor once said, the first time it's tragedy, the second time it's farce.