Example sentences of "[be] once [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 3 | James Knights told me that he and his mate were once in a fight with two Burton men , and his mate — a Halesworth man — died in his lodgings two days later . |
| 4 | We were once in a dug-out , I recollect : there were only owd bits o' wood on the top of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Negative statements such as ‘ I do n't know how you can work with them ’ or ‘ they do n't belong here — this is a college ’ , which were once like a red rag to a bull to me , no longer insult or injure as they did . |
| 7 | I 'd ordered champagne and flowers because a honeymoon is once in a lifetime but we ended up carrying our own luggage in pitch darkness across a car park and up a huge flight of stairs . |
| 8 | I was once with a student who responded with a stall recovery when the glider hit some turbulence on the final approach . |
| 9 | The writer was once with a small London bookseller who unblushingly pointed out a volume of Arctic travel which he was just about to despatch for the full treatment of glaciers , polar bears and seals . |
| 10 | After all , the top of the table that was once on a line with our chin now reaches only to our thighs . |
| 11 | ‘ I was once in a hotel in India , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I was once in a ward with nine other people for a year and I know how , except when passed away , I know how that can really get on one another 's nerves and erm the individual needs that they will have I know will be erm so difficult if there are too many living in very closeness . |
| 13 | " 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 . |