Example sentences of "once [vb past] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey knew of the bitterness engendered by the coal royalties paid to the Church , and how the miners once tried to throw a bishop into the River Wear . |
| 2 | When the CIA and MI6 approached Gehlen with the idea of tapping into Russian communications in Berlin he responded warmly and at once started to prepare a list of suitable sites where the zones ran close together , and offering opportunities for driving tunnels from one to another . |
| 3 | They at once proceeded to make a perambulation without authorization , and publicly proclaimed in the city of York that any forester who entered the forest would lose his head . |
| 4 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 5 | I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off . |