Example sentences of "i once had " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's my first treble this season , but I once had a four-timer and a second from five rides at Newbury . ’ |
| 2 | I once had a thing going with Leila Saatchi . ’ |
| 3 | I once had a half-day seminar in a conference room on the top floor of Chicago 's O'Hare Hilton overlooking the O'Hare Airport runways , which crossed each other . |
| 4 | ‘ I once had a drink with David Thomson at Camden Town in London , ’ I said , ‘ and I know Martina slightly . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I once had an opportunity to visit Jaffa again , ’ Damiani said . |
| 6 | For instance , I once had occasion to ask him if a certain gentleman expected at the house was likely to be accompanied by his wife . |
| 7 | I once had a humble role in one of his features : I played myself as enthusiastic musicologist , introducing a rare recordings of famous cellists performing various juicy bits ( none of them had bothered to play it all ) out of a stylistically promiscuous Cello Sonata by a rightly-obscure Swiss genius never existed ; the cellists ( who ranged from ‘ Beatrice Harrison ’ , complete with atrocious surface-noise and garden crow effects , to ‘ Yo Yo Ma ’ ) were graphically impersonated by Moray Welsh ; the ‘ Sonata ’ excerpts themselves , fondly murdering many turn-of-the-century composers and idioms , were of course all Ben 's own work . |
| 8 | I once had a letter from a woman asking me if I could settle a dispute she was having with her partner . |
| 9 | One letter was from an old customer of a café Malc and I once had . |
| 10 | At school , I once had an argument with a boy from another form and we decided to meet in the break to settle it with our fists . |
| 11 | I was so pleased to see the advert for the Minitex Knitter ( July MKM ) , because I once had one ! |
| 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 two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 14 | Hawkfish — I once had one that ate six live Cleaner Shrimps . |
| 15 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 16 | I once had to step out of the water with 5½ stone of weights on me , and it was then I resolved to diet . |
| 17 | It was the colour of a skirt I once had that he had specially liked . |
| 18 | ‘ Terrible to think I once had you sipping sherry in my rooms and never realized it . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I once had a sort of vague idea that life in the country was innocent and uncomplicated , ’ said Lydia . |
| 21 | ‘ In fact , I once had a third cousin — or was it a great-aunt … ? ’ |
| 22 | I once had a cabbie called Supersad Morgan . |
| 23 | That 's a bitch I once had … |
| 24 | I yearn for the love and affection I once had , ’ she cried passionately . |
| 25 | ‘ I once had ideas of sailing around the world , doing a Sir Francis Chichester , you know , but work got in the way , and I had to lower my sights . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I once had a brother , though — my twin . ’ |
| 27 | I once had a book called Enjoy your Alligator . |
| 28 | Rendered all the worse by the high hopes I once had , the desire to wrest from Mother Nature some of her deepest secrets , however dark the passage down which I might tread . |
| 29 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 30 | ‘ I once had a week in a boarding-house called St Monica 's , ’ he said . |