Example sentences of "once [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tale that Sultan Selim , in setting off to do battle with his neighbours , once arranged to be equipped with fatwas ( formal religious rulings ) from senior Sunni ulema ( divines of great learning in theology and Islamic law ) proclaiming the slaying of Shah Ismail , heretic and unbeliever , to be a religious duty . |
| 2 | It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs . |
| 3 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 4 | The respect once given to older people for their knowledge and experience has suffered as a result of several factors : the decline of custom , the acceleration of change and the loss of oral traditions . |
| 5 | His main principle with regard to the past was that nothing once given to God or the saints could be restored to the kingdom of this world without injustice . |
| 6 | I would humbly propose that the contemporary artist be laid to rest along with his works : a royal burial of the kind once given to emperors in eastern lands , whose slaves and worldly possessions accompanied them on their final journey into the unknown . |
| 7 | Hugh Price Hughes once referred to the ‘ unspeakable joy of beholding eleven penitents ’ who came forward because of his preaching . |
| 8 | Coleman once referred to ‘ heartbreaking ’ letters which he heard had been written by practitioners who had gone unprepared into country practice , but he said ‘ I have no compunctious visitings in the matter ’ . |
| 9 | THE hands were once referred to as forks , hence to fork out . |
| 10 | Mobuto had never once referred to his father by name or attempted to make any apology for the abhorrent crimes that had been committed under his regime . |
| 11 | He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle . |
| 12 | Godfrey de Lucy [ q.v. ] , later bishop of Winchester , is once referred to as his fellow student . |
| 13 | by John Bailey Bream , once referred to as the matchman 's favourite fish , have seen their popularity amongst specialist anglers rise dramatically over the past few years . |
| 14 | Sheila Jordan is one of the finest singers in jazz history : Charlie Parker once referred to her ‘ million dollar ears ’ . |
| 15 | Many of the old mansions are uninhabited and the great amphitheatres , once host to plays and masques , are silent and empty . |
| 16 | The legality of money market dealings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London , which once amounted to exposure of £5bn is being challenged by its auditor , Anthony Hazell , a partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells , with the support of the Audit Commission , the local authority financial watchdog . |
| 17 | John Ostrom once pointed to the teeth of duckbills that seemed to be specialized for the grinding of coarse plant foods . |
| 18 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 19 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 20 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 21 | I remember the boy rose once to go to the bathroom , his thin , adolescent frame weaving in pain . |
| 22 | Tony , 47 , who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night , just ca n't resist a good time . |
| 23 | It never once occurred to him that he might die . |
| 24 | It never once occurred to you that you might be an ignorant , selfish , lousy lover . |
| 25 | A TELEVISION commentator who once referred to the Augusta crowd as a ‘ mob ’ so angered tournament officials that he was not invited back the following year . |
| 26 | But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor . |
| 27 | Once added to the relevant files , they can be brought immediately under LIFESPAN 's control . |
| 28 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 29 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 30 | Matthew concentrating on the steak , seemed impervious and never once rose to her bait , but James , it was clear , was cheered and encouraged by Jenny 's affectionate treatment . |