Example sentences of "he once [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 2 | He told the Queen how he once made the cast salute her as she drove past.He did n't have his Minder with him today , but he did bring 'er indoors . |
| 3 | When he was in the air force he once spent the weekend cycling uphill for 11 hours against the wind , before climbing for an hour to reach a mountain hut . |
| 4 | He once told the Conducator the old ( apocryphal ) story about Churchill 's meeting with Stalin in October 1944 . |
| 5 | Of these victims 367 were claimed in Farnes 's games for Essex , for whom he once performed the hat trick — against Nottinghamshire in 1939 — and for whom his best performance was 15 for 113 against Glamorgan in 1938 . |
| 6 | In addition to his rather rough looks and leonine hair-style Parker was famous for his unconventionality , dramatic preaching and rounded oratory : he once claimed the Church of England was based on ‘ a blasphemous inversion of sequence and a mischievous usurpation of prerogative ’ . |
| 7 | In the first half of the poem ( lines 1–32 ) Wordsworth tells us that he once visited the castle in a season of calm weather . |
| 8 | At dinner , he once shocked the wife of an Allied ambassador by saying that it was ‘ his cherished dream to make war and lead a charge at the head of his regiment ’ America 's ambassador in Berlin , James W. Gerard remarks that the Crown Prince |