Example sentences of "as [pers pn] once [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , in fact , a good case for resisting the takeover of literature by culture , though it is not as strong as I once thought it was . |
| 2 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 3 | Plastic explosive burns quietly , as I once demonstrated in an admiral 's ashtray , believing the stuff to be an enemy incendiary compound . |
| 4 | Saying Grace is not always a prelude to conventional manners in Free Kirk households as I once found when asked to offer the Grace in a cottage in Point , Lewis , in which the great aunt of a friend lived . |
| 5 | Perhaps , if things improve they will go into industry , as I once did . |
| 6 | She looked at her hands , knobbling with rheumatism , " I ca n't use 'em as I once did . " |
| 7 | Her wreath in the shape of a tank bore the message ‘ As you once said , there is too much love between us ever to be separated ’ . |
| 8 | Philosophy is very small , as she once told a fellow-philosopher and , what is worse , ‘ counter-natural ’ . |
| 9 | How pleased Mama would be ! — and she no longer took things for granted as she once had . |
| 10 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 11 | You ca n't chat with someone who is senile , and when she wets herself I shout at her as much as she once shouted at me . ’ |
| 12 | Reading is not as simple as it seems , and the reader is not as passive a receiver as we once thought . |
| 13 | The existence of radiation from black holes seems to imply that gravitational collapse is not as final and irreversible as we once thought . |
| 14 | At the centre of his treatise on society , as we once knew it , are upstanding noble politician Sir Robert Chiltern ( David Yelland ) and his terribly principled and adoring wife Gertrude ( Hannah Gordon ) . |
| 15 | According to centre director Anne Shearer , a qualified psychotherapist and former social work committee chairperson , fear and anxiety , often rooted in childhood , leave us unable to breathe as deeply or as evenly as we once did , and this in turn means we can not relax fully or enjoy really good health . |
| 16 | But I know it is sad that all our clubs are out of Europe now and it will probably be a long time before we can hope to dominate abroad as we once did . |
| 17 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 18 | It was a house made as they once made their ships and I wondered how many would now learn either craft . |
| 19 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 20 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |
| 21 | Then they 'll be put on show in what we call habitat displays ' so that all the people of America who wo n't ever come here will be able to see them iii our nation 's capital just as they once lived in these jungles . |
| 22 | When children are older , they often feel angry that their parents are n't as wonderful as they once thought . |
| 23 | Even though crude-oil imports continue to grow relentlessly , many in the industry feel that the decline in American oil and gas production will not be as precipitous as they once feared . |
| 24 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 25 | The African national parks are shrinking and animals can no longer roam as they once did ; and poachers run riot . |
| 26 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 27 | The wealth of fiction available from that source has even scared evening newspaper editors off using short stories , let alone crime short stories , as they once did almost every day . |
| 28 | If they would only return to playing with their undoubted flair and to enjoying the game as they once did . |
| 29 | While the TNCs from the United States no longer dominate these sectors as they once did , they are still the leaders in a wide variety of fields and even when they are not the leaders it tends to be ‘ American ’ cultural products or local adaptations of them that are on offer . |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia , as its new oil minister Hisham Nazer stressed , had no intention of acting — as it once had — as OPEC 's ‘ swing producer ’ , expanding production if the aggregate OPEC output fell short of the ceiling and cutting back if the ceiling seemed likely to be exceeded . |