Example sentences of "once [prep] a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He and his falconer go out perhaps once in a week along the ridge towards the Roman road from Shrewsbury .
2 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
3 1969 — ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
4 America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST .
5 The sheep were penned in the yard , a usual practice at clipping time , when fleeces were clipped and thrown up at once to a helper on the gallery for storage .
6 He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town .
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