Example sentences of "once upon a time [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once upon a time magistrates had been dull , stolid figures , worthy but uninspiring , above all remote and anonymous .
2 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 .
3 Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis .
4 Once upon a time man lived by hunting and by gathering .
5 It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone .
6 Once upon a time teams from Britain and all over the world were seen under the lights .
7 Once upon a time muezzins had had to climb such towers to call the people to prayer , the little round room at the top giving resonance , enlarging the human voice .
8 Once upon a time book-buying parents could rely on the classics to keep the kids quiet .
9 Once upon a time Shrove Tuesday was a holiday and there was feasting and fun in the streets before the quiet days of Lent .
10 Once upon a time waste management was purely a matter of public health .
11 Once upon a time leather was rugged black cowhide ; utilitarian , fetishistically zippered and oozing macho anti-social symbolism .
12 Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight .
13 ( There is evidence , though , that once upon a time Mars enjoyed running water . )
14 ONCE upon a time people indulged in the ages-old craft of telling stories to each other — but then television and video stepped in and took the words out of our mouths .
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