Example sentences of "once [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where 30,000 rice varieties once flourished in South-East Asia , one single kind now occupies two-thirds of the land . |
| 2 | She once declared in print that what ‘ the carpenter got done in for ’ was ‘ this thing called sin and we keep on doing it ’ . |
| 3 | The drama depicted is something that once happened in front of the canvas — where the painter claimed to be nature ! |
| 4 | The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out . |
| 5 | GOALKEEPERS , Brian Clough once said in praise of Peter Shilton , can be the difference between champions and also-rans . |
| 6 | These loopholes remain despite the concern of some judges such as Mr Justice Boreham , who once said in judgment ‘ I know a little about life and even if [ the accused ] had had intercourse with the girl before , he does not have the prescriptive right to it thereafter . |
| 7 | A little to the west of Casa Litta is the church of San Vito al Pasquirolo , a church in a more than usually pretty Baroque style that once stood in meadow land , its position explaining the name — ‘ San Vito in the pasture ’ . |
| 8 | The creation therefore is not like some frictionless machine , which once set in motion carries on until stopped , but something which is dependent on the continuing work of its Creator . |