Example sentences of "once [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once made a large collection of snakes there . |
| 2 | There were no A-levels or 0-levels and although I once got a hearty handshake for my English book from a kindly Mr. Pickering at Abbeydale School , I seemed to get the cane for almost everything else . |
| 3 | As a matter of interest , I once met a forensic scientist fortunate enough to have been present during a research experiment in which a mummy was unwrapped . |
| 4 | I once met a social worker , this was years ago , I I was gon na say , this could n't happen today , but it probably could , erm , one hopes it could n't happen today , but it probably would happen today , too . |
| 5 | It is an old ship-building town , it once produced a massive proportion of British vessels , but it has been in decline for decades . |
| 6 | Grisedale once housed a busy farming community but economic necessity after the war caused a sad exodus and the abandonment of farmhouses and buildings . |
| 7 | The large German presence in Iran at once became a hostile force to the Russians as well as to the British . |
| 8 | ( I once asked a gifted student to bring me a setting of the Kyrie . |
| 9 | I once helped a young design student with her presentation garments . |
| 10 | ‘ Funnily enough , Jasper and I once helped a human diabetic out of a hypo with Jasper 's stash of sugar lumps ! ’ |
| 11 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 12 | Moreover when I once tried a word-association test with a class of college of education students , the word " library " for quite a large minority of them meant " fines " ( although there was no fines system in the college library ) . |
| 13 | On its bush I once traced a gracious face that soothed some half-controlled tears , and once a leer that agitated some nervous mood of loneliness . |
| 14 | Now an international pop/musical star , he once played a skateboarding character in an Aussie soap opera . |
| 15 | Charles Marowitz once identified a crucial characteristic of Genet 's work : |
| 16 | I once astounded a good guitarist friend of mine — who was also an electronics engineer , believe it or not — at the difference in tone and volume between a Whirlwind lead and a cheapo cable . |
| 17 | For instance , on St Brigid 's Day in Ireland , she once filled a great lake with ale for the poor to enjoy . |
| 18 | At the end of a scientific lecture , C. P. Snow once received a backhanded compliment from his chairman who said , ‘ We all knew Raman spectroscopy was complicated , but did not realise how complicated until we heard Snow 's talk ’ . |
| 19 | He once shone a surprising shaft of original light on to the economic scene . |
| 20 | I once defended a small village on Trieste from over a hundred of these things . |
| 21 | He once defended a racist skinhead who 'd committed a burglary while on parole . |
| 22 | Handel once threw a young composer 's music out of the window , saying it wanted air . |
| 23 | I once spent a whole rehearsal on the Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann , which is for me one of the most tragic things in opera . |
| 24 | McFarlane once discovered a good way to kill curiosity , like the cat . |
| 25 | Your mother , may God rest her soul , your mother in all her born days never once served a hot meal on a cold plate . |
| 26 | Malik once served a short term in jail in Karachi where he was filmed by Dutch television living in the height ofluxury . |
| 27 | He once began a memorable contribution to a debate on the 1981 riots in Brixton with the words , ‘ My Lords , I think I am the only member who has spoken today who has had agricultural estates in Jamaica . ’ |
| 28 | Jasper Carrott once brought a portable TV along with him to one particular charity do to while away the hours in his dressing room . |
| 29 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 30 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |