Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that he came once but he did n't like the new Al Ain . |
| 2 | He was so alarmed by Mr Brownlow 's excitement that he fainted once more . |
| 3 | There was no way of explaining this , no parallel that he could reach for other than to say : that he 'd once made a wish , and the wish now appeared to have come true . |
| 4 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 5 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 6 | He told me that he had once worked for Lipton 's Stores in London , very near my old school , Holloway Comprehensive . |
| 7 | Gerry told me that he had once run a showband , and played bass guitar . |
| 8 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , director-general designate of the CBI , confessed yesterday that he had once been a member of the Labour party , but regretted it as a ‘ bizarre incident ’ . |
| 9 | It was strange to think that he had once been young . |
| 10 | He was a Christian for many years but quite unable to forget that he had once been ‘ an infidel and libertine , a servant of slaves in Africa ’ . |
| 11 | The driver objected on the ground that he was averse to needles and that he had once fainted when giving a sample of blood . |
| 12 | There 'd been ever more frequent occasions , when he took her to dances and held her in his arms , that he had once more become acutely aware of her in a physical sense . |
| 13 | He was not clear about it , had no notion of his objective or destination ; he knew only that he had once felt filled with high sense of purpose , that aimlessness had not then been his condition , but a starry conviction . |
| 14 | Richard , back from work after a tiresome day , stopped on the Embankment to look , and remembered that he had once gone on board the Waalhaven for a drink when she put in at Orfordness . |
| 15 | Somewhere , buried deep in his memory , Harry sensed that he had once known the word . |
| 16 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 17 | Having been damaged in January by allegations of marital infidelity , Clinton began the month with poll ratings which suggested that he had once again established a significant lead over his Democratic rivals . |
| 18 | The fact that he had once been the President of the Midlands Motor Traders ' Association , and was a director of Harry Greenway plc , was not considered to compensate sufficiently for Sir Ralph Howell . |
| 19 | He almost told her that he had once lived a year with a girl he had married navvy-style , over the anvil , and had got her with child before she ran away from him . |
| 20 | Hard to credit that he had once fathered a daughter — and a beautiful girl she had turned out to be — like her granny … |
| 21 | In the Corfe Castle listing of 1794 , one of the relief recipients , in his seventies and with a large family from a younger wife , is described as a labourer , but a marginal note informs us that he had once been a farmer and overseer of the poor . |
| 22 | that he had once lain with me |
| 23 | In 1939 , Pétain refused to be a candidate for the Presidency , recalling that he had once described it as only ‘ suitable for defeated marshals ’ . |
| 24 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |