Example sentences of "once [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once given a set of memories , they are , to all intents , human . |
| 2 | Local residents , once given a hint , can be useful allies in preserving these forgotten features of their heritage . |
| 3 | When Simon pressed and won his claim for an assistant inspector to supervise the national vaccination scheme in 1871 , the current permanent secretary , Ralph Lingen , issued a general warning in the accompanying minute : ‘ I do not know who is to check the assertion of experts when the government has once undertaken a class of duties which none but such persons understand . ’ |
| 4 | Her mother gave in to this demand because otherwise Kim had bad tantrums during which she had once broken a glass dividing door and on another occasion a dining chair . |
| 5 | One of the authors once taught a class who applauded at the end of classes they enjoyed . |
| 6 | I had once won a prize for French poetry composition at school , so I did n't feel too outclassed in this respect . |
| 7 | Once frozen a body of water remains frozen for the rest of the game — the spell does not remain in play and may be cast again at a different body of water . |
| 8 | COLIN STOKES , the SCRIMLEY ARSENAL goalkeeper once owned a dog that only had three legs ! |
| 9 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 10 | A little probing reveals that Ashton once owned a Fiat of his own in his art-school days . |
| 11 | Barton Lynch 's manager had once picked a fight with him . |
| 12 | According to Brian Sewell , art critic of the Evening Standard , it was well known that the Royal Collection had once contained a number of pornographic drawings by Leonardo . |
| 13 | The Spidergobs had once caught a technerd to have fun with , a technerd who could savvy scumlingo , and who 'd screamed about how all his gang cousins had been taken into the Troopies up at some gateway fortress where the land-trains left , whatever those were . |
| 14 | The Wall Street Journal once reported a mainframe customer 's remark that the Amdahl coffee cup on his desk might look ordinary but it was in fact worth a million dollars , the size of IBM 's concession on a hotly contested deal . |
| 15 | She was frequently found raiding the refrigerator at Highgrove late in the evening , and once startled a footman by eating an entire steak and kidney pie when she was staying at Windsor Castle . |
| 16 | Winchester at once sought a meeting with Lautro . |
| 17 | Winchester at once sought a meeting with Lautro . |
| 18 | He handed Eleanor 's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with . |
| 19 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 20 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 21 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 22 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 23 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 24 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 25 | Anne had once written a piece about prison conditions . |
| 26 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 27 | William Trood was also an intrepid traveller , and once made a trip to Morocco , where he was presented with a silver-inlaid Damascus sword by the Sultan of Morocco . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 30 | The issue before the House of Lords was whether a court of summary jurisdiction , having once accepted a plea of guilty , had jurisdiction to allow the defendant to change his plea to not guilty . |