Now that I’m lying down, I feel a lot better.
Once I’m lying down, I usually feel better.
Once I was lying down, I felt a lot better.
Once you’re lying down, you’ll feel a lot better.
In formal written styles, once may occur with clausal ellipsis:
Once inside the house, the three men were arrested immediately by police officers.
(Once they were inside the house …)
Once in fixed expressions
59d
Once occurs in many fixed expressions. Most of these are expressions of time.
Some common examples are:
at once (immediately, simultaneously)
all at once (suddenly)
once upon a time (used at the beginning of traditional stories)
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