Example sentences of "[noun prp] once [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana once said that the real proof of love was the sharing of a single toothbrush by lovers . |
| 2 | Sylvia Plath once said that a story should begin with your main character up a ( metaphorical ) apple tree being pelted by someone — and then you deal with the problems arising . |
| 3 | In a much quoted statement , Brezhnev once asserted that civilian production accounted for 42 per cent of the output of defence industry itself . |
| 4 | Rari Barth once said that ‘ the best apologetic is a good dogmatic ’ . |
| 5 | Alexander once said that people want to change and yet still want to remain the same . |
| 6 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 7 | The educationalist Sir Robert Gould once said that a child being educated in Great Britain could not possibly understand his own environment without understanding something about Christianity ; and he was right . |
| 8 | Nigel once remarked that if the meek do inherit the earth , I 'll be lucky to get a window box ! |
| 9 | Lenin once argued that a political leader is responsible not only for policy but for the action of those who execute it . |
| 10 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |
| 11 | The late unlamented Field Marshal Goering once said that when he heard the word " Culture " , he reached for his gun ; I feel rather the same about the phrase " continuous sedimentation " . |
| 12 | The essayist and physician Havelock Ellis once suggested that thieves might be recognised by their low-lying ears and small heads . |
| 13 | ‘ Oscar Wilde once said that children begin by loving their parents ; after a time they judge them ; rarely , if ever , do they forgive them . |
| 14 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer once commented that ‘ religious people speak of God when human knowledge has come to an end , or when human resources fail … |
| 15 | ( Taylor once said that steel workers are like oxen , both physically' and mentally . ) |
| 16 | Faintly , he remembered Lavinia once saying that the little girl from Sea House was going to come to the nursery school next term . |
| 17 | In fact , Elias Canetti once suggested that if the conductor were to turn fully round during a performance the spell he exerts would be broken . |
| 18 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
| 19 | At a footballer 's dinner in Glasgow , the Irish international Liam Brady once joked that McAvennie 's team-mates nicknamed him ‘ Ginger-Pubes ’ , adding with glee , ‘ I can assure you Frank 's blonde hair is n't natural . ’ |
| 20 | LIKE Neil Kinnock , Des Wilson once said that he wanted to retire at 50 . |
| 21 | I remember that Lee once said that it was a good thing so many contemporary artists use shoddy materials because their works would happily disintegrate so future generations would be spared the sight of them . |
| 22 | Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most . |
| 23 | And then someone else at Ladymont once said that it takes two men to rape you . |
| 24 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 25 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 26 | Lady Eden once remarked that she felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through her drawing room . |
| 27 | Peter once said that the true inner self is ‘ the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit , which is of great worth in God 's sight . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Thatcher once said that Northern Ireland was as British as Finchley , but the actions of her Government and her successor 's have consistently belied that . |
| 29 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 30 | Although Trollope once remarked that ‘ when we have once learnt what was that picture before which was hung Mrs Ratcliffe 's solemn curtain , we feel no further interest about either the frame or the veil ’ , his remark is valid only for her species of the Gothic . |