Example sentences of "once [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once read about a boxer who did that . |
| 2 | At one point , Dequasie quotes an anonymous poem he once read in a newspaper : |
| 3 | They once lived on a housing estate , but the council was forced to move them to the isolated bungalow after complaints from neighbours . |
| 4 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |
| 5 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 6 | I once heard of a case where two dogs fought almost to the death over an empty sweet paper . |
| 7 | I once heard of a woman who complained that all the attractive men in London were gay . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The heir to Blenheim Palace once broke into a chemist 's looking for drugs . |
| 10 | But it is also possible that ( as he once hinted in a press conference ) he might have refused Marshall Aid rather than cave in to Anglo-American pressure on the German issue . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | I once worked on a magazine about the law , called , imaginatively , Law Magazine . |
| 13 | Corporal Staples once worked as a receptionist . |
| 14 | A man who once talked to a selection committee about the battle of Waterloo , he likes his unexpected allusions and so hits us with Lobenegula ( King of the Matabele , was it ? ) |
| 15 | Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him . |
| 16 | ‘ Paheri never once looked at a woman , though of course by thirteen we were hoping to match him . |
| 17 | My wife and I once went into a pharmacie in Montauban and requested a packet of bandages . |
| 18 | I once went to a saddler in Bungay who sold these belts ready made up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 21 | I once went for a job as a fisherman . |
| 22 | ( the saddle once growled as a dog ) . |
| 23 | You find yourself not doing a whole lot of things you once did without a thought . ’ |
| 24 | It will include an interview with film star Stewart Granger with whom Roma once appeared in a play on Broadway . |
| 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 | For , as New Scientist reported , true to its function ( as a barrister once said about a toilet roll revolving when stood on , causing injury ) the Home Office had held an exercise about an attack on Britain by the USSR . |
| 27 | As one Formula One veteran once said to a newcomer : ‘ Welcome to the piranha club . |
| 28 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 29 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 30 | 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 . |