Example sentences of "once tell [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You know , I once told Laura that I would n't like to be left alone with you for any length of time . " |
| 2 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 3 | He once told NME , ‘ I 've smoked so much pot , I 'm surprised I have n't turned into a bush ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't lose a club , the way you can an umbrella , ’ he once told Agnes . |
| 5 | He says he once told Peter he had ‘ the ignorance of his brother without the excuse of his genius ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Leavis demands moral earnestness : I prefer morality , ’ he once told Kingsley Amis in a characteristically Johnsonian antithesis , adding that he would sooner live among people who did not cheat at cards than among the sort who are earnest about not cheating . |
| 7 | They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé . |
| 8 | ‘ We working artists suffer from them ’ , he once told Epstein . |
| 9 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 10 | He has confided that he once told Claudia that in real life people do not go around analysing everyday rituals . |
| 11 | Fred had once told Lorton that he reckoned to make his beer money from playing pool , and perhaps a little bit over for the dogs . |
| 12 | She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son . |
| 13 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 14 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 15 | Sir Frank , who had earned his knighthood by making house calls only at houses where there might be photographers waiting outside , had once told George he drank too much . |
| 16 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 17 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 18 | In a rare moment of fatherly frankness , he had once told Jack of his dreams of floating the company on the stock market , of the Reg Butler ( Entertainments ) Corporation being a name in the City , of maybe even being Lord Reg one day . |
| 19 | ‘ We Queens must stick together , ’ Minton had once told John Norris Wood who had expressed surprise at Minton 's devotion to the Queen Mother . |
| 20 | She was upstairs at once to tell Mary what had happened , though I do n't suppose Mary paid her much heed . |