Example sentences of "[noun] once [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a free agent once released into a burrow and is free to go wherever it feels inclined . |
| 2 | As one Formula One veteran once said to a newcomer : ‘ Welcome to the piranha club . |
| 3 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 4 | It will include an interview with film star Stewart Granger with whom Roma once appeared in a play on Broadway . |
| 5 | Author Kevin Wilkins once worked in a factory near his home town of Barrow-in-Furness where he tested the quality of toilet tissue . |
| 6 | Author Kevin Wilkins once worked in a factory near his home town of Barrow-in-Furness where he tested the quality of toilet tissue . |
| 7 | Which embarrassing item of clothing did Sir Geoffrey Howe once leave on a train ? |
| 8 | He is also a keen footballer and for the past 18 years has run the Johnstone United Boys Club , where Robert Hassan once played as a teenager . |
| 9 | Anna once worked as a secretary to Piggott 's wife Susan . |
| 10 | His name once appeared in a diary of Colonel Oliver North during the Irangate hearings , though Wilkinson thinks that was because he was giving a lecture in Washington . |
| 11 | ( the saddle once growled as a dog ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We had a common view , ’ Lewis once conceded in a letter , but we had it before we met , ’ insisting that no one ever influenced Tolkien : ‘ You might as well try to influence a bandersnatch . ’ |
| 13 | Lewis once remarked to a colleague during the Attlee premiership of 1945–51 , and quite without irony , that it could not be disputed that the prime minister was an agent of the Devil . |
| 14 | For , as New Scientist reported , true to its function ( as a barrister once said about a toilet roll revolving when stood on , causing injury ) the Home Office had held an exercise about an attack on Britain by the USSR . |
| 15 | Corporal Staples once worked as a receptionist . |
| 16 | Southey once sheltered from a storm here , and wrote a bad sonnet ‘ by the alehouse fire |
| 17 | The heir to Blenheim Palace once broke into a chemist 's looking for drugs . |