Example sentences of "[that] once [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet recent research has shown that the village was the centre of a great late Saxon estate that once extended north-east to Towcester , south-east to Buckingham , north to Chipping Warden and west perhaps well into Oxfordshire , and was also the site of a great Saxon minster church . |
| 2 | THE revels that once took place at the New Year turned everything base over apex . |
| 3 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 4 | It is gratifying to know that the industry that once gave employment to many hundreds of the local population , is still able to flourish in small pockets . |
| 5 | Opening rounds of 85 and 78 at the qualifying school in Montpellier have wrecked his chance of a 1993 tour card and he is close to quitting a game that once promised millionaire status . |