Example sentences of "i once " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it . |
| 2 | I once witnessed an incident that could so easily have been avoided if the pilot had considered a downwind landing as a possible option . |
| 3 | ‘ Funnily enough , Jasper and I once helped a human diabetic out of a hypo with Jasper 's stash of sugar lumps ! ’ |
| 4 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 7 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 8 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 9 | I once complained to Help The Aged about the way they got kids to compete for ‘ badges ’ by encouraging them to collect a target number of sponsors — and thus to pester neighbours . |
| 10 | That 's my first treble this season , but I once had a four-timer and a second from five rides at Newbury . ’ |
| 11 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 12 | The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out . |
| 13 | On its bush I once traced a gracious face that soothed some half-controlled tears , and once a leer that agitated some nervous mood of loneliness . |
| 14 | I would try and tell you what I have been thinking ; though I once told you I cried because I was incapable of thought … . |
| 15 | I once lived next door to a giant of a man with feet like Yeti slippers . |
| 16 | And I once saw a dancing bear when I was little . |
| 17 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 18 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 19 | All three Alejo Carpentier novels I once owned disappeared , one by one , in the most mysterious fashion . |
| 20 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 21 | I once had a thing going with Leila Saatchi . ’ |
| 22 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 23 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 24 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 25 | I once left a message on a colleague 's answering machine saying that someone else could not make a meeting because she had resigned . |
| 26 | For example , I once accompanied a daughter to the mortuary where her mother lay . |
| 27 | I once had a half-day seminar in a conference room on the top floor of Chicago 's O'Hare Hilton overlooking the O'Hare Airport runways , which crossed each other . |
| 28 | I once saw Eddie travel nearly half a mile like that . |
| 29 | I once knew a man who had been brought up beside a Patrick 's Well in County Limerick . |
| 30 | ‘ I once had a drink with David Thomson at Camden Town in London , ’ I said , ‘ and I know Martina slightly . ’ |