Example sentences of "[pron] once [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once read about a boxer who did that . |
| 2 | I once heard of a case where two dogs fought almost to the death over an empty sweet paper . |
| 3 | I once heard of a woman who complained that all the attractive men in London were gay . |
| 4 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 5 | My wife and I once went into a pharmacie in Montauban and requested a packet of bandages . |
| 6 | I was nearly in love , I was proposed to a couple of times ; on the other hand , I once went for a year without men , without sex — both seemed too much trouble . |
| 7 | I once went for a job as a fisherman . |
| 8 | I once went to a saddler in Bungay who sold these belts ready made up . |
| 9 | ‘ No thanks , ’ he replied , his face as long as a landslide , ‘ I once went to the House of Commons to see how the country was run . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I once went to an art film festival . |
| 12 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |
| 13 | Edward Cody of the AP and I once came to the conclusion that in every interview we conducted in Lebanon , a special chair should be set aside for The Plot — since The Plot invariably played a leading role in all discussions we ever had with politicians , diplomats or gunmen . |
| 14 | The story reminded me of a report I once received from an Advisor about a youngster who was out of school . |
| 15 | ‘ I once travelled on a train from Leeds to London with Shaun and we got on fine . |
| 16 | I once complained to the principal about being cast as 89-year-old women all the time , and he said , ‘ My dear , that 's probably all you 'll ever play . |
| 17 | Plastic explosive burns quietly , as I once demonstrated in an admiral 's ashtray , believing the stuff to be an enemy incendiary compound . |
| 18 | I once worked on a magazine about the law , called , imaginatively , Law Magazine . |
| 19 | I once worked with a teacher who was called out six times in an hour to deal with comparatively trivial problems ( certainly trivial compared with the slaying of the Minotaur ) . |
| 20 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 21 | For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine . |
| 22 | The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across . |
| 23 | The sovereign 's power to debase the currency has passed to the commercial banks and so has the seigniorage which once accrued to the state . |
| 24 | And there was an almost disastrous end for this 1913 American motorbike , which once belonged to the actor , Steve McQueen … |
| 25 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 26 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 27 | Magnificent is the fine stone canopy which once stood over the tomb of Bishop Lucianus by Matěj Rejsek , 1493 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is the Drowned Forest , which once stood on the land , before the sea came in over it . |
| 30 | It is the last remaining of four windmills which once stood in the town . |