Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] once [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawing was once in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence . |
| 2 | The only outings I remember being taken on as a child were once with the school to the zoo and once by my mother to a seaside promenade . |
| 3 | Both Dada and Surrealism were once at the cutting edge of art and design . |
| 4 | James Knights told me that he and his mate were once in a fight with two Burton men , and his mate — a Halesworth man — died in his lodgings two days later . |
| 5 | The writer was once with a small London bookseller who unblushingly pointed out a volume of Arctic travel which he was just about to despatch for the full treatment of glaciers , polar bears and seals . |