Example sentences of "[pers pn] once have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis said , ‘ I once had a vision of your son . |
| 2 | That 's my first treble this season , but I once had a four-timer and a second from five rides at Newbury . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I once had a drink with David Thomson at Camden Town in London , ’ I said , ‘ and I know Martina slightly . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I once had a cabbie called Supersad Morgan . |
| 7 | ‘ I once had a brother , though — my twin . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I once had a week in a boarding-house called St Monica 's , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I once had a letter from a woman asking me if I could settle a dispute she was having with her partner . |
| 10 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 11 | I once had a book called Enjoy your Alligator . |
| 12 | ‘ I once had a sort of vague idea that life in the country was innocent and uncomplicated , ’ said Lydia . |
| 13 | I mean I I once had a job , it was booked Er now what do they call the road ? |
| 14 | I once had a thing going with Leila Saatchi . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm amazed how difficult it is occasionally for a murderer to despatch his victim : in the Thames Valley we once had a case where no fewer than twenty-three vicious stab-wounds were insufficient to complete the sorry business . |
| 16 | We once had a neighbour who had and , I kept looking after that , that , and you know , I must say , I quite enjoyed it having . |
| 17 | We once had a horse who was as quiet as a lamb on the lunge and worked very well , but the moment he was ridden , he became very tense , grinding his teeth and constantly trying to run away . |
| 18 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 19 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 20 | He bought that because he once had a tiff with a BBC car park attendant who would n't let him in . |
| 21 | Robyn has been told that he once had a beard , and he is forever fingering his chin as if he missed it . |