Example sentences of "once went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 2 | It lies in the immediate background of another family of views of consciousness which , at the time I write , is propagated with the zeal which once went into behaviourism . |
| 3 | My wife and I once went into a pharmacie in Montauban and requested a packet of bandages . |
| 4 | I once went to the trouble of having a pair made in the finest white doeskin but fortunately I have now outgrown such extravagances in much the same way that I have outgrown the petty conversations and banal posturings of those who frequent literary gatherings or , worse , television studio canteens . |
| 5 | I once went to the Ajami police station to ask for protection but the British constable would n't open the door to me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I once went to Japan to advise on a course , ’ he continued , ‘ and they wanted this bunker reproduced exactly as it is on the Old Course . ’ |
| 7 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 8 | ‘ No thanks , ’ he replied , his face as long as a landslide , ‘ I once went to the House of Commons to see how the country was run . |
| 9 | I once went to an art film festival . |
| 10 | I once went to a saddler in Bungay who sold these belts ready made up . |
| 11 | And we once went to Scotland , then breakfast in it , when Pauline was with us did n't , were n't it John ? |
| 12 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 13 | I was nearly in love , I was proposed to a couple of times ; on the other hand , I once went for a year without men , without sex — both seemed too much trouble . |
| 14 | I once went for a job as a fisherman . |
| 15 | But this terminology and the politics which once went with it have now all but completely vanished . |
| 16 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 17 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |