Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] upon a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | Predictably , Irish Terence Adair believes that ‘ if steamers come into vogue , they will do away with all the romance once upon a time supposed to belong to a naval life ’ but the Scotsman 's more practical view chimes in with Jack 's opinion . |
| 3 | " In your case , " he said , setting a well-shod foot casually upon a gravestone , his warm and wonderful fur cloak eddying snugly around it , " it can hardly matter . " |
| 4 | Do these words mean that judges can be dismissed by the Crown only upon an Address of both Houses ( with a direction to the Houses that they are not to present an Address unless the judge has misbehaved himself ) ? |
| 5 | well I had a Triumph Herald once upon a time , everything with that was bolted on |