Example sentences of "[noun sg] i once " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there I went a bit I once saw a big pile of soil at the back you know . |
| 2 | A girl on a health education course I once taught told me of someone she knew whose husband had died after six months of marriage . |
| 3 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 4 | Some have come out there and then , while others have waited until later , like Ruth at a club I once worked in . |
| 5 | I 've forgotten the scruffy intellectual I once was . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm trying to find an actress I once saw who looks just like you . |
| 7 | It was the colour of a skirt I once had that he had specially liked . |
| 8 | I was so excited by the first decent piece of gold ever found , that a test I once read about came into mind . |
| 9 | ‘ A gentle-hearted wild young girl I once loved . ’ |
| 10 | She looked very peaceful , like a girl I once saw who had drowned . |
| 11 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |
| 12 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 13 | You remind me of a cocker spaniel I once owned . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll remember instead another lecture I once attended , some years ago at the Cheltenham Literary Festival . |
| 15 | I 'd sort of missed the music of the band I once knew , so maybe there had been one hippy in attendance , after all … |
| 16 | ‘ In this same room I once helped a pretty young woman who came in with cut and bleeding feet , who gave birth to a boy and then died . ’ |
| 17 | The production cycle of a monthly magazine I once edited was over five weeks for features , news fared slightly better at two weeks , and these represent the time taken to get the magazine to the printer , not onto the newsagents shelves . |
| 18 | I turned to Jamie and then the girl , cleared my throat and said quite clearly : ‘ I did n't know if you two ever shared or , indeed , still do share , for that matter , for all that I know , at least mutually between yourselves but at any rate not including me — the misconception I once perchanced to place upon the words contained upon yonder sign , but it is a fact that I thought the ‘ union ’ referred to in said nomenclature delineated an association of working people , and it did seem to me at the time to be quite a socialist thing for the town fathers to call a street ; it struck me that all was not yet lost as regards the prospects for a possible peace or at the very least a cease-fire in the class war if such acknowledgements of the worth of trade unions could find their way on to such a venerable and important thoroughfare 's sign , but I must admit I was disabused of this sadly over-optimistic notion when my father-God rest his sense of humour-informed me that it was the then recently confirmed union of the English and Scottish parliaments the local worthies-in common with hundreds of other town councils throughout what had until that point been an independent realm — were celebrating with such solemnity and permanence , doubtless with a view to the opportunities for profit which this early form of takeover bid offered . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 20 | Although Shelley smiled only faintly , Byron roared with laughter and said , ‘ Let me tell you of an inscription I once saw scrawled on the wall of a low jakes in Chelsea . |
| 21 | You know , the author whose novel I once tried to promote . ’ |
| 22 | I know I never met Bill , but from all you said of him he reminded me much too much of a man I once knew and loved . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be glad to get to know them all , even if he is n't the man I once knew . |
| 24 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's the cousin I once told you about . |
| 26 | That 's a bitch I once had … |
| 27 | On its bush I once traced a gracious face that soothed some half-controlled tears , and once a leer that agitated some nervous mood of loneliness . |
| 28 | It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures . |
| 29 | In an attempt to solve this problem , I have used the experience gained from an analysis I once made of some Playschool programmes on BBC2 , and brought along some assistance , in the form of Big Ted and Little Ted , who will play the two speaker roles , and to whom I shall give an oral and a nasal voice respectively . |
| 30 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |