Example sentences of "[that] once [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the head of Haweswater ascend high Street , named after the Roman road that once ran along the ridge between Blea Water and Riggindale , on a well defined path . |
| 2 | The deep beam that once ran across the deckhead in line with the forward edge of the chart table has been removed and with it the possibility of scalping tall members of the crew every time they made their way forward through the saloon . |
| 3 | The palisaded earthwork that once lay across the neck of the promontory , beside which they foregathered , was beaten half flat ; and the huts , once the two parties of principals had made their way inside , were mostly empty and ruinous . |
| 4 | Our reporter Tim Hurst has spent five days on board , as the Gloucester prepared for her new role , and also visited Albania , a country that once lived under the world 's toughest dictatorship . |
| 5 | Unknown to the Orcs , the crown was working its power upon Azhag , for it was an ancient and evil device that once belonged to the Liche Lord Nagash himself , and his power and his spirit still clung to it . |
| 6 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 7 | This point was well illustrated in a Church row that once broke over the head of a certain man . |
| 8 | The name is an ancient word referring to a Saxon village that once stood to the north of Darlington between Beaumont Hill and Walworth . |