Example sentences of "[adv] upon a " in BNC.
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| 91 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ Patsy began , ‘ in an old town , in an old street , there stood a very old 'ouse . ’ |
| 92 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ her brother began again , ‘ in an old town , in an old street , there stood a very old 'ouse , such a grand 'ouse , the sort of 'ouse you do not find nowadays … ’ |
| 93 | An authentic Welsh version was , according to Lady Llanover 's Good Cookery ( 1867 ) once upon a time made with ewe 's milk cheese ( Lady Llanover lived in Monmouthshire for about ninety years ) , now presumably obsolete . |
| 94 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
| 95 | Once upon a time this was the role everyone thought was the right and moral one , but the immense power of television to influence , and the rapid growth of communications , makes such definitions naive . |
| 96 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
| 97 | We give here a brief sample both of the original [ 10 ] and of Burgess 's Class 1 version [ 11 ] : [ 10 ] Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo … |
| 98 | Once upon a time , an angel came down to earth to test the charity of man . |
| 99 | Once upon a time . |
| 100 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he would begin his lectures , ‘ in the remote marches and forests of Central Asia , near a lake called Issyk-Koul in the province of Semiriechinsk , there lived a small , pretty squirrel-like creature called the Marmot … ’ |
| 101 | ‘ Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep , and his name was Tom … ’ |
| 102 | Once upon a time |
| 103 | And the grand finale , the police acting as undertakers at the public burial of what , once upon a time , must have been a human relationship … |
| 104 | Formulaic expressions such as ‘ Once upon a time … and they lived happily ever after ’ can be used explicitly to mark the boundaries of a fragment . |
| 105 | " There was once upon a time " , he declared in 1901 , " when I was foolish enough to believe that the foreigners were the great curse of the British seamen . |
| 106 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |
| 107 | Once upon a time he had instant access to anyone in the office ; now he would telephone and be put on hold . |
| 108 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ Carla said , then stopped . |
| 109 | Once upon a time that was just ‘ Paris ’ which , in dilute form , finally filtered down to the local ladies ' modes . |
| 110 | Once upon a time leather was rugged black cowhide ; utilitarian , fetishistically zippered and oozing macho anti-social symbolism . |
| 111 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 112 | But if they are described in stories , then surely they must have lived once upon a time ? ’ |
| 113 | I 'm just trying to remember that j Oh erm down on Road , here , where the vicarage is , it used to be a pub , because the vicarage were over here at once upon a time . |
| 114 | Perhaps objects like these had been fashionable in churches once upon a time , but no longer , hence the attic . |
| 115 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ I said , ‘ people believed that horse-hair grew into eels . ’ |
| 116 | Once upon a time ( I said , and he stared bitterly bitterly at the floor ) there was a very ugly monster who captured a princess and put her in a dungeon in his castle . |
| 117 | Once upon a time , long ago , there was a rich merchant who thought that the city where he lived was full of bad people , and especially bad children . ’ |
| 118 | Well , once upon a time there was no world at all . |
| 119 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 120 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |