Example sentences of "[pers pn] on one occasion " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 2 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 3 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 4 | She was with me on one occasion when we went to Saltburn where they had some Italian gardens which I liked very much . |
| 5 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 6 | When seeing practice he was very selective in the cases he wished to observe , but he was immediately attracted to Cedric 's symptoms and insisted on coming with me on one occasion . |
| 7 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 8 | A domestic did miss her on one occasion when her husband and son were present and corrected the situation . |
| 9 | Minton 's irritation with Bacon found outlet in quips about ‘ Ferdie Ham ’ , and to David Tindle he on one occasion remarked : ‘ It 's no good you trying to do Francises , dear : he can hardly manage to do them himself . ’ |