Example sentences of "once [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the amazement of suburbanites ( many of whom once lived in the city ) , Detroiters continue to re-elect politicians who are less than squeaky clean . |
| 2 | But the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , who once lived in the colony , said the governor had taken a series of moves which were supported in the territory and should be supported in Britain . |
| 3 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 4 | It takes its name from the Norse word ‘ lax ’ meaning salmon , which once swam in the river . |
| 5 | For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine . |
| 6 | The transsexual , once stabilized in the role long seen as the only natural one , may naturally want a normal family life . |
| 7 | Perhaps the same E. M. Nicholson once walked in the wet down Wharfed ale , listening , like us , to tuneful April songsters singing in the rain . |
| 8 | The firm was founded ten years ago by Mr Anderson , an investment consultant who once worked in the tea business , and ex-commodity broker Richard Illingworth , to provide Latin America with seed . |
| 9 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 10 | The smile on her sweet mouth quickly faded though the moment the door was opened and she at once took in the unusual pallor of Cara 's skin and the fact that , if she was n't mistaken , her dear sister had recently been crying . |
| 11 | Where crops once grew in the village , there is now a wilderness of grass and wildflowers , with yellow irises , lousewort and spotted orchis . |
| 12 | It is as if , out of nowhere , his voice had spoken in the room , as it once did in the lane . |
| 13 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 14 | To emphasize his concern for his constituents he once appeared in the House of Commons dressed like a Cumberland labourer and carrying a loaf and a cheese under his arms . |
| 15 | Johnson was an explosive winger , an athlete with such a burst of natural speed that he once competed in the Powderhall Sprint and was capable of holding his own against international sprinters . |
| 16 | He once wrote In the experiments about atomic events we have to do with things and facts , with phenomena which are just as real as any phenomena in daily life . |
| 17 | It is the last remaining of four windmills which once stood in the town . |
| 18 | A quarter of a million wooden barrels once stood in the cooperage yard at St. James 's Gate , and each and every one of them was handmade and mended by Guinness 's own coopers . |
| 19 | ‘ Statues of the gods once stood in the niches that surround us , but they were borrowed over the centuries and not returned . |