Example sentences of "once [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legality of money market dealings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London , which once amounted to exposure of £5bn is being challenged by its auditor , Anthony Hazell , a partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells , with the support of the Audit Commission , the local authority financial watchdog . |
| 2 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 3 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 4 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 5 | Tony , 47 , who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night , just ca n't resist a good time . |
| 6 | It never once occurred to him that he might die . |
| 7 | It never once occurred to you that you might be an ignorant , selfish , lousy lover . |
| 8 | A TELEVISION commentator who once referred to the Augusta crowd as a ‘ mob ’ so angered tournament officials that he was not invited back the following year . |
| 9 | But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor . |
| 10 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 11 | Matthew concentrating on the steak , seemed impervious and never once rose to her bait , but James , it was clear , was cheered and encouraged by Jenny 's affectionate treatment . |
| 12 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 13 | She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ . |
| 14 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 15 | Will McLewin rolls into town 40 minutes late , parks his battered VW van on double yellow lines in Llanberis High Street and wanders into Pete 's Eats with a mirthful , wondering , combative expression on a face I once compared to a quick and breathing version of Norman Tebbit 's . |
| 16 | Edward Cody of the AP and I once came to the conclusion that in every interview we conducted in Lebanon , a special chair should be set aside for The Plot — since The Plot invariably played a leading role in all discussions we ever had with politicians , diplomats or gunmen . |
| 17 | The pits close , leaving thousands without jobs in pit-head villages that they or their fathers once came to for work . |
| 18 | I sa I said about half past three , that she must have been enjoying it because she never once came to me |
| 19 | He , in the , in the early nineteen-fifties he once came to , he came to Oxford , and there was a meeting at which erm all my colleagues threw at him very sophisticated objections to his philosophical position . |
| 20 | The loss of Mr Moynihan 's seat marks the end of a career of one who once seemed to be a young Tory success story . |
| 21 | The lights , which once seemed to be there to compensate for any lackings in the performers ' abilities , are now secondary to the punch of the music . |
| 22 | A youngster of 3½ years once replied to my question ‘ What do you do when you think ? ’ , |
| 23 | " You search the scriptures " , Jesus once replied to his critics , " because you think that in them you have eternal life ; and it is they that bear witness to me . |
| 24 | His first book , War and Trade in the West Indies , 1739–1763 ( 1936 ) , a tour de force based on immense research , was infused throughout by his pursuit of what he once declared to be his prime interest in history — ‘ to find out how things worked ’ . |
| 25 | He once claimed to me that he was able to open a beer bottle with his eye and that it would cost me $29 for the privilege of seeing the trick . |
| 26 | He once returned to his old school and told staff : ‘ By the time I 've paid my analyst as much as my father paid you , he may have undone the damage you did . ’ |
| 27 | six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid … |
| 28 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 29 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 30 | It once belonged to Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is extraordinarily large for a man so small . |