Example sentences of "he once [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a friend in Scotland swears that he once heard a sermon preached on the wonders of creation in which the minister made much of the sanctity of the earthworm and even speculated on whether every earthworm is an individual . |
| 2 | He bought that because he once had a tiff with a BBC car park attendant who would n't let him in . |
| 3 | He once attacked a Government scheme to promote black businesses by describing the plans as favouring ‘ lazy West Indians at the expense of diligent Asians ’ . |
| 4 | His descent continued : his job talking rubes into a San Francisco strip-club was his most reputable career during a period in which he also became a heroin addict , a pimp for his next bride and an armed robber ( he once pinned a victim 's hand to the floor with a knife ) . |
| 5 | According to legend he once ate a plate of raw Troll meat which is regenerating within him all the time . |
| 6 | In one memorable outburst , he once made a plea for more money , claiming that professional footballers were little more than ‘ white slaves ’ . |
| 7 | He once annotated a proof : ‘ The man who mixes Fell and Caslon will get the sack . ’ |
| 8 | He once took a swim late at night with a drunken socialite , but that had turned out to be entirely innocent and there was testimony from Cary Grant to prove it . |
| 9 | He decided to honour hangman Albert Pierrepoint , who died aged 87 last month , because he once ran a pub in nearby Much Hoole . |
| 10 | He once ran a marathon for training , but only after running 15 miles to get to the start and ‘ warm up ’ . |
| 11 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
| 12 | He was well known to the band because he once shared a house with Solowka in Leeds . |
| 13 | For example , he once received a postcard from his mother and sisters which said : ‘ Today we gone to Mexico — south of the border ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Lots of managers have to be cheats and conmen , ’ he once told a Football Writers ' Association dinner . |
| 15 | In his autobiography he dismissed Gerry Daly as a player ‘ who lacked grey matter ’ and during his days as manager of Derby County he once told a player ‘ You 're very deceptive son — you 're even slower than you look . ’ |
| 16 | He once held a mission in Romaldkirk which I attended . |
| 17 | He once won a scholarship to go on a German banking state tour . |
| 18 | He once pulled a switchblade on his director because they could n't agree on the way to do a scene . |
| 19 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 20 | He once refused a knighthood . |
| 21 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 22 | ‘ He once did a trial Castlemaine ad — a group of Australians standing at a bar , all one-legged after crossing an alligator-infested river to get there . |
| 23 | ( So committed has Kandel been to reductionism as philosophy as well as methodology that he once gave a talk to an audience of psychiatrists with the theme of ‘ Psychotherapy and the single synapse ’ . ) |
| 24 | He once gave a beggar his nearly new velvet suit — doubtless glad of the chance to get rid of it . |
| 25 | He once gave a demonstration to the trainees , picking on a virgin client whom a good trainee had been unable to open up . |