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Example sentences of "i once [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience
2	I once heard a couple making plans and counter-plans for a family outing ; after much discussion one of them said , ‘ As far as I can see , there are disadvantages in all those schemes . ’
3	I once heard a recording dating from the American election of 1948 .
4	I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction !
5	I once heard the confession of a merchant from the Portsoken who wished absolution for killing his wife .
6	Losing From An Unassailable Position : I once dissipated a lead of 65 points with only two reds left on the table .
7	‘ I once stuck a pitchfork through a toad . ’
8	‘ I once questioned a vicar because his choir was too big .
9	Tallis said , ‘ I once had a vision of your son .
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 had a drink with David Thomson at Camden Town in London , ’ I said , ‘ and I know Martina slightly . ’
12	‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’
13	This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake .
14	I once had a cabbie called Supersad Morgan .
15	‘ I once had a brother , though — my twin . ’
16	‘ I once had a week in a boarding-house called St Monica 's , ’ he said .
17	I once had a letter from a woman asking me if I could settle a dispute she was having with her partner .
18	So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College .
19	I once had a book called Enjoy your Alligator .
20	‘ I once had a sort of vague idea that life in the country was innocent and uncomplicated , ’ said Lydia .
21	I mean I I once had a job , it was booked Er now what do they call the road ?
22	I once had a thing going with Leila Saatchi . ’
23	I one , I once had the flu
24	‘ I once had an opportunity to visit Jaffa again , ’ Damiani said .
25	At school , I once had an argument with a boy from another form and we decided to meet in the break to settle it with our fists .
26	I once left a message on a colleague 's answering machine saying that someone else could not make a meeting because she had resigned .
27	I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings .
28	I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless .
29	‘ I once met a parson when I was travelling with an entire horse and he said :
30	I once met a girl who awoke to find herself gripped by the Spirit of God at 2 a.m .