Example sentences of "[noun sg] once [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a free agent once released into a burrow and is free to go wherever it feels inclined . |
| 2 | There is a legend , born out of a murder once committed at the St. James ' Theatre , that if anyone else should be murdered there a dumb woman will appear on stage to reveal the murderer . |
| 3 | With Liverpool manager Graeme Souness starting a five-match UEFA touchline ban for abusing the referee in the first leg , their 1992 European campaign has produced a catalogue of disasters for a club once feared across the continent . |
| 4 | Legally , the treaty would come into effect once ratified by the parliaments concerned . |
| 5 | On the same day the UN special border commission adopted the proposals which would go into effect once approved by the Security Council . |
| 6 | Pacifism was in retreat and the moralistic socialist alternative once favoured by the ILP was largely assimilated into Communist ideology . |
| 7 | In a few moments lonely Tess was asleep , in the bedroom once used by the young wives of her ancestors . |
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| 9 | As one Formula One veteran once said to a newcomer : ‘ Welcome to the piranha club . |
| 10 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 11 | In case you 're wondering , I could n't give a monkey 's about hunting , a sport once described as the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable . |
| 12 | Other items include a ravishing account of ‘ Qui la voce ’ from Bellini 's Puritani done in 1960 , the end of Act 1 of Verdi 's La Traviata , the Bell Song from Delibes ' Lakme and a rare Donizetti aria once used as a substitute item in Lucia . |
| 13 | Sport , as John Gillis put it , in Youth and History , took on many of the functions of the rites of passage once reserved to the Latin language , and enshrined the separation of boys from the world of women . |
| 14 | No such problems prevent such a conveyance where registered title is involved since office copy entries of the title can be obtained and the transfer once executed by the husband and wife can be lodged at HM Land Registry . |
| 15 | They may either be conceived as the ultimate arbiters of truth and values ( a function once held by the churches ) or they may meet certain religious or psychological needs . |
| 16 | All that remains of the 18C building once belonging to the Thun family are the portals by Santini . |
| 17 | There are plenty of social activities , a football club , children 's play area on the playing field , and a well-equipped snooker room in a building once known as the reading room . |
| 18 | This is all that remains of a noble old building once owned by the Bishops of Rochester and known locally as the Old Palace . |
| 19 | Two years ago , Master Solper could get you anything ; a piece of cloth from the napkins used at the Last Supper , a hair from the beard of St Joseph , part of a toy once used by the Baby Christ . |
| 20 | In January this year those photos of Wyatt with Fergie and her children were conveniently found in an apartment once rented by the Texan and ended up with a newspaper . |
| 21 | ‘ Sitaki mafi zako bwana ’ ( Do n't give me your shit mister — Swahili slang ) , as my ayah once said to a door-stepping American missionary . |
| 22 | The argument is one of many currently raging between Sefton Council and people living in the town once known as the Garden City of the North . |
| 23 | He no longer recognized the room into which she bade him enter , a bare place once furnished with the haphazard gleanings of pawnshops and charity , now beautified beyond anything in St Jude 's by rugs and armchairs and a chintz-covered sofa , heavy red plush curtains at the window , a table with a fringed , red plush tablecloth to match , pictures on the walls , china ornaments , a good fire burning , something savoury and appetizing in the coal oven beside it . |
| 24 | They think the disc you have is , in fact , an annual contract disc once used on the cross-Mersey ferries . |
| 25 | His name once appeared in a diary of Colonel Oliver North during the Irangate hearings , though Wilkinson thinks that was because he was giving a lecture in Washington . |
| 26 | ( the saddle once growled as a dog ) . |
| 27 | There is cracked mud where water once rushed through the mill race on the Ver , near St Albans , Herts . |
| 28 | ERIC Clapton , the British rock legend once ignored by the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences , swept the Grammy Awards last night with a bittersweet song dedicated to his dead son . |
| 29 | Piero Pazzi , Curator of the Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and the silver department of the Museo Diocesano , Venice , has produced a catalogue of 224 stolen , lost or damaged works of art originating from Venice or from the Triveneto ( here defined to encompass the area once covered by the Republic of Venice and including Bergamo , Brescia and Crema ) . |
| 30 | A young woman once interviewed on the radio was asked whether she felt that working as a cleaner was beneath her . |