Example sentences of "once upon a time " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is remembered chiefly for his series of twenty Organ Sonatas , but there is much more besides ; a substantial corpus of choral music , including three Requiems and no fewer than twelve Masses , two operas , a Symphony , symphonic poem , two Concertos for Organ ( once upon a time available from E. Power Biggs on a CBS LP ) and one for Piano — and a fair amount of chamber music , sixteen opus numbers in all , of which this Thorofon CD ( the least of seven ) rounds off a complete recording . |
| 32 | She had played beautifully once upon a time , and even now , although she had been compelled to give it up almost entirely , it was a joy to listen to her . |
| 33 | Once upon a time — oh , years and years ago ! — she had been a schoolmistress . |
| 34 | Once upon a time you had a dream — that you lived in a world of simple market forces where everything or everybody had a price or value . |
| 35 | Its wines were once upon a time combined in the vat with those of Verzenay and it is from the reputation of that great village that Beaumont-sur-Vesle has wrested its misplaced status . |
| 36 | PRS and Patrick Eggle have revived this fashion , which was predominant once upon a time on Gibson 's ES345/355 models . |
| 37 | Once upon a time there was a film with a jolly popular song , sung as a duet . |
| 38 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST |
| 39 | ONCE UPON a time , somewhere in Ireland , two brothers and a like-minded friend decided to form a band . |
| 40 | Once upon a time there was a little boy called Steven Spielberg who refused to grow up . |
| 41 | Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after . |
| 42 | Once upon a time there was something called soul . |
| 43 | Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice . |
| 44 | Once upon a time a man could hang for setting fire to a hayrick ! |
| 45 | ‘ Once upon a time she would have been jealous about the constant reference to Charles and Camilla but no longer . |
| 46 | Once upon a time this may have been so . |
| 47 | ( There is evidence , though , that once upon a time Mars enjoyed running water . ) |
| 48 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
| 49 | Once upon a time there was the offer of a lifetime from Books for Children . |
| 50 | Once upon a time you made them yourself . |
| 51 | Nostalgia , necessity ( once upon a time ) , narrowness ( increasing ) , music , majority vote , excess ( hopefully ) |
| 52 | ONCE UPON a time Primal Scream were a dismal Byrds-obsessed ‘ C86 ’ jangle rock band with a biker fetish . |
| 53 | 1969 — ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST |
| 54 | But once upon a time the ad pages of NME throbbed with the heady thrills of Loon pants ! |
| 55 | ONCE UPON a time The Face was the style bible not of gits in fake fur-trimmed parkas and yups looking for new big ties , but of crazy over-made-up early '80s youth , for whom mum 's old curtains and too much eye-liner signified SEX and REVOLUTION . |
| 56 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |
| 57 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 58 | ONCE UPON a time , not so long ago , Mudhoney swore an oath of allegiance to independent labeldom in the belief that small was best … |
| 59 | Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis . |
| 60 | Once upon a time this plasteel cavern with its ranks of mighty support pillars must have seemed spacious , voluminous , gargantuan . |