Example sentences of "[noun sg] once [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one Formula One veteran once said to a newcomer : ‘ Welcome to the piranha club . |
| 2 | ‘ Sitaki mafi zako bwana ’ ( Do n't give me your shit mister — Swahili slang ) , as my ayah once said to a door-stepping American missionary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( the saddle once growled as a dog ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The house once belonged to a Turkish prince when the Lebanon was still a part of the Ottoman Empire , ’ a man said , tying the belt of his white dressing-gown as he descended the stairs . |
| 7 | The heir to Blenheim Palace once broke into a chemist 's looking for drugs . |