Example sentences of "once [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They once lived on a housing estate , but the council was forced to move them to the isolated bungalow after complaints from neighbours . |
| 2 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |
| 3 | But it is also possible that ( as he once hinted in a press conference ) he might have refused Marshall Aid rather than cave in to Anglo-American pressure on the German issue . |
| 4 | A man who once talked to a selection committee about the battle of Waterloo , he likes his unexpected allusions and so hits us with Lobenegula ( King of the Matabele , was it ? ) |
| 5 | Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him . |
| 6 | For , as New Scientist reported , true to its function ( as a barrister once said about a toilet roll revolving when stood on , causing injury ) the Home Office had held an exercise about an attack on Britain by the USSR . |
| 7 | A little museum in Broadbank helps to tell the history of the town and right at the door is placed the Blue-stone : an enormous boulder which once stood on a street corner in the town and is thought to have been brought here by the Scandinavian ice flow . |