Example sentences of "[pron] once [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like I once read a book where this girl she wanted to be a doctor and they brought her to a nursery for work experience |
| 2 | I once heard a couple making plans and counter-plans for a family outing ; after much discussion one of them said , ‘ As far as I can see , there are disadvantages in all those schemes . ’ |
| 3 | I once heard a recording dating from the American election of 1948 . |
| 4 | I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction ! |
| 5 | Losing From An Unassailable Position : I once dissipated a lead of 65 points with only two reds left on the table . |
| 6 | ‘ I once stuck a pitchfork through a toad . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I once questioned a vicar because his choir was too big . |
| 8 | Tallis said , ‘ I once had a vision of your son . |
| 9 | That 's my first treble this season , but I once had a four-timer and a second from five rides at Newbury . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I once had a drink with David Thomson at Camden Town in London , ’ I said , ‘ and I know Martina slightly . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |
| 12 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 13 | I once had a cabbie called Supersad Morgan . |
| 14 | ‘ I once had a brother , though — my twin . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I once had a week in a boarding-house called St Monica 's , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I once had a letter from a woman asking me if I could settle a dispute she was having with her partner . |
| 17 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 18 | I once had a book called Enjoy your Alligator . |
| 19 | ‘ I once had a sort of vague idea that life in the country was innocent and uncomplicated , ’ said Lydia . |
| 20 | I mean I I once had a job , it was booked Er now what do they call the road ? |
| 21 | I once had a thing going with Leila Saatchi . ’ |
| 22 | I once left a message on a colleague 's answering machine saying that someone else could not make a meeting because she had resigned . |
| 23 | I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings . |
| 24 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 25 | ‘ I once met a parson when I was travelling with an entire horse and he said : |
| 26 | I once met a girl who awoke to find herself gripped by the Spirit of God at 2 a.m . |
| 27 | When hearing such tales those in the jungle would become quite terrified , and I once met a group of Chewong on the move with all their worldly belongings , having abandoned their settlement in order to resettle much deeper in the jungle because they had heard rumours that the Malays wanted Chewong heads . |
| 28 | I once followed a pupil around for a whole day , and was impressed by the peculiar mixture she experienced of dislocated bits and pieces , and longer sessions where there were ‘ spaces ’ for her to enjoy and explore learning or — occasionally — to waste time in . |
| 29 | I once attended a talk at which a group of people with learning difficulties described how they hated being called ‘ mentally handicapped ’ . |
| 30 | I once knew a man who had been brought up beside a Patrick 's Well in County Limerick . |