Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] once [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | six times I have returned to that country , demanding the past from the present , flogging my emotions , requiring of them , still , that freshness they once owed to novelty , and from year to year finding in my ageing desires rewards ever less vivid … |
| 2 | It was in a little book I once got for Christmas called Ghosts and Other Weird Creatures . |
| 3 | with Argyll 's management and substantial experience in the food and drink markets , both nationally and internationally , we can restore Distillers to the pre-eminent position it once occupied at home and abroad , and that we have the opportunity to build Distillers and Argyll into Scotland 's greatest company … based in Edinburgh and directed from there . |
| 4 | The extremism I once heard in soul has been evened out . |
| 5 | ‘ These changes mean that there is without doubt an opportunity for many funeral directors to recover VAT they once had to write-off . |