Example sentences of "once [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Amsterdam , lonely these days in a small street blocked by an enormous chained steel gate that had once guarded wharves teeming with commerce , had few cars parked outside , and no BMW . |
| 2 | Once treated fabric will be quicker drying , less absorbent and better insulated . |
| 3 | Richard at once countered Philip 's thrust by moving into the Loire valley himself . |
| 4 | They include some dating back to Emperor Septimius Severus who once ruled York . |
| 5 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 6 | He thinks that if he is only slavish enough in his service of the old hag , the beautiful girl to whom he once made love will come back to him : |
| 7 | ‘ We once made love on the spur of the moment in the loo of an aircraft , ’ she recalls . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm the man who once made love to your mother and made you . ’ |
| 9 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 10 | places , of quiet which once made Saints |
| 11 | They had once formed mountains . |
| 12 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 13 | It was , he claimed , a piece of bitumen which assuredly had once formed part of the hull of Noah 's Ark , and had great value in the averting of mischief . |
| 14 | Virtually every house on the coast was built from stout oak planks , each timber bearing unmistakable signs of having once formed part of a wooden ship . |
| 15 | She had once heard Betty calling Jane Austen ‘ dear Jane ’ . |
| 16 | The banality of this latter type of entertainment is said to have once provoked Napoleon III to remark : ‘ Great God ; they talk about the debauchery of the Court ; they should be sentenced to an evening like this . ’ |
| 17 | She also went at least once to see Dr Hensman . |
| 18 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 19 | ‘ I once met Buchanan , ’ Tweed said quietly . |
| 20 | Lady Miss Kier of Deee-Lite once met Jimmy Carter — ‘ the best American president , ’ she and her fellow group members concur — in Boston . |
| 21 | ( Oh , by the way , I once met Luther and his wife Katherine . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'd get short shrift from him if he once laid hands on them . |
| 23 | She herself was educated in Paris with Prince Sihanouk , and she once entertained Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon in Cambodia . |
| 24 | ‘ Local derbies , I luv 'em , ’ chuckled Big Mal , who once lowered Manchester United 's flag to half mast before they clashed with his Manchester City team at Maine Road . |
| 25 | Like much of the ivy in the garden they once inhabited window boxes . |
| 26 | A friend once likened life in an auction house to a swan : it glides serenely through the water while below , unseen , its feet are thrashing wildly . |
| 27 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 28 | This fluency once led Mikhail Botvinnik to class Reshevsky as a mere ‘ spieler ’ , meaning a coffee-house player . |
| 29 | Once snow thaws , expect poor sport . |
| 30 | Like Crimp himself , I feel that Chopin 's A flat Ballade in C minor Nocturne at once make nonsense of that . |