Example sentences of "[adv] upon a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once upon a time , this might have been 95 per cent . |
| 32 | MOSCOW — Once upon a time , in a previous journalistic incarnation , I worked at Westminster . |
| 33 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 34 | Once upon a time , long long ago and far far away , out in the dreamlands , there was another Margaret just like you . |
| 35 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 36 | Once upon a time , of course , when you craved new clothes , you had to save for them — a quaint custom almost as outdated as horsedrawn carriages and farthingales . |
| 37 | ONCE upon a time people indulged in the ages-old craft of telling stories to each other — but then television and video stepped in and took the words out of our mouths . |
| 38 | Once upon a time book-buying parents could rely on the classics to keep the kids quiet . |
| 39 | Once upon a time , if you were caught short , there would be a convenience at your disposal . |
| 40 | I 'd have done anything for you once upon a time . |
| 41 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he had written . |
| 42 | ‘ Once upon a time , there was a boy called Nigel Charles Hughes . |
| 43 | ‘ Once upon a time , when Daddy was a little boy , he used to wake in the night and cry . |
| 44 | ( The Countess of Clancarty , rumoured to have been the Earl 's cook once upon a time , charged £2,000 for the service , and Lady St John of Bletso , whose provincial protégées were known as ‘ the Blets ’ , the same amount . ) |
| 45 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 46 | After the narrows at St Goar and the infamous Lorelei , the river opens out again and begins to look a little cleaner , as though it might even , once upon a time , have been blue . |
| 47 | It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone . |
| 48 | ONCE upon a time , a school trip meant a week under canvas in Wales or , if it was especially adventurous , a visit across the Channel . |
| 49 | Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering . |
| 50 | According to a Sumerian poet : ‘ Once upon a time there was no snake , there was no scorpion , / There was no hyena , there was no lion , / There was no wild dog , no wolf , / There was no fear , no terror , / Man had no rival . ’ |
| 51 | Once upon a time , there was waking , which was slow and painful , and then quite a long period , replete with chances and triumphs and defeats and risks , which sometimes , though not always , ended in lunch . |
| 52 | Once upon a time he had read a quite terrifying number of books and accumulated an equally terrifying number of opinions about them . |
| 53 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |
| 54 | However , once upon a time the mathematician was a child too . |
| 55 | It has a ‘ once upon a time ’ approach and , while avoiding negative criticisms of New Age philosophies , it takes the reader on a tour of some of the more positive Christian beliefs . |
| 56 | This could be heard approaching from some distance off , owing to its lack of an exhaust pipe , and was known around the camp as the Green Devil because it had , once upon a time , been that colour all over , instead of just in places as now . |
| 57 | Safety was , once upon a time , an issue that concerned the opposition to nuclear power . |
| 58 | ONCE upon a time , farmyard ‘ muck ’ was a subject of little interest outside the farm . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |