Example sentences of "[vb past] once [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 2 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 3 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 4 | And I believe we met once at a Stock Exchange luncheon . " |
| 5 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 6 | Another beautiful volume was The Rosary by Florence M. Barclay which is a story intertwined with a song which I heard once on a record sung by Paul Robeson . |
| 7 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 8 | He only won once as a novice but was very consistent . |
| 9 | The swords clashed once in a parry , and then both of the offworlders were circling one another cautiously . |
| 10 | Her old white dress and purple shawl She bought once from an ancient stall . |
| 11 | It 's just good to hear it said once in a while ! |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time . |
| 13 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |