Example sentences of "[pron] once [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once heard my mummy say |
| 2 | I once cut my wrist on a guillotine machine at a picture-frame makers where I was working . |
| 3 | I once asked my stage director what would happen if I made an unexpected ritardando . |
| 4 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 5 | I once told my brother the comic after my father had read it to me earlier . |
| 6 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 7 | I ca n't harm them — the way you once harmed my family when you only meant to harm me ! |
| 8 | She once asked my advice on a birthday gift , so I suggested a book . |
| 9 | ‘ She once mended my watch when it went wrong — ’ Malcolm was old-fashioned and liked watches made about ninety years ago in Switzerland by little hunch-backed men . |
| 10 | ‘ He once visited my master . ’ |