Example sentences of "once [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sandra , who once saw a bad LSD experience , became fixed to what he called a firm mystical path , seeking enlightenment even before it was fashionable . |
| 32 | I suspect Bunny probably meant that he once knew a Swedish waitress , but I let it pass . |
| 33 | So he would accept that she thought him good , whatever she meant by it , and he at once felt a curious sense of relief and surprise within himself . |
| 34 | This assumption means that peoples can be analysed in ways comparable to those used with individuals , for the gulf between individual and group psychology is bridged by the survival of memory traces : ‘ … men have always known ( in this special way ) that they once possessed a primal father and killed him ’ . |
| 35 | Sevenhampton was where novelist Ian Fleming once earned a living writing about a secret agent called James Bond and Rupert likes to think that Roves Farm is helping to put the village back on the map . |
| 36 | He once struck a brilliant first-half hat-trick at Blackburn Rovers . |
| 37 | Fritz Leiber once wrote a terrific book called Conjure Wife , in which it was revealed that all women were witches . |
| 38 | She was pleasantly sleepy by bedtime in spite of her thoughts and for once had a dreamless sleep , no images of her mother to distract and disturb her . |
| 39 | Built in on the site of an older church , it once had a central pulpit with pews arranged round it in a circle . |
| 40 | Some markets , which once had a homogeneous character , have tended to splinter into a variety of consumer groups , each with different tastes and preferences ; for instance , see Box 16.1 . |
| 41 | I once had a half-day seminar in a conference room on the top floor of Chicago 's O'Hare Hilton overlooking the O'Hare Airport runways , which crossed each other . |
| 42 | I once had a humble role in one of his features : I played myself as enthusiastic musicologist , introducing a rare recordings of famous cellists performing various juicy bits ( none of them had bothered to play it all ) out of a stylistically promiscuous Cello Sonata by a rightly-obscure Swiss genius never existed ; the cellists ( who ranged from ‘ Beatrice Harrison ’ , complete with atrocious surface-noise and garden crow effects , to ‘ Yo Yo Ma ’ ) were graphically impersonated by Moray Welsh ; the ‘ Sonata ’ excerpts themselves , fondly murdering many turn-of-the-century composers and idioms , were of course all Ben 's own work . |
| 43 | It is certainly possible that Mercury once had a molten iron core which has since partly or wholly solidified . |
| 44 | Apart from spending a lot of money on the church , they built this house , where once stood a meagre rectory , and called it ‘ Sutton on the Hill Hall ’ . |
| 45 | Easily Accessible : Mere is an attractive town dating back to Saxon times with pretty stone cottages and fine views of Blackmore Vale from Castle Hill , where once stood a medieval fortification . |
| 46 | On the site to the north of the churchyard there once stood a Gilbertine Priory . |
| 47 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 48 | Look over to the platform high on the opposite bank of the river where once loomed a huge statue of Stalin , which the Communist Party ordered to be destroyed in 1962 . |