Example sentences of "once [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thing once told me the Ship flies very fast . |
| 2 | And Managing Director Richard Doyle-Davidson once showed me the ceiling of his office where water was seeping in . |
| 3 | This at once gave me the idea for the experimental design I wanted . |
| 4 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 5 | Brown , whose iconoclastic pronouncements and ascetic personal style once earned him the nickname " Governor Moonbeam " , urged the importance of restoring democracy and honesty to the political process . |