Example sentences of "[Wh det] once [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The real price though , has been paid by the wildlife which once lived in Cannop brook .
2	Streets which once throbbed with dock and factory workers and their families were now deserted .
3	Easily Accessible : Lewes is an interesting town dating back to the Norman Conquest with steep narrow streets and a mixture of Georgian and older buildings including antique shops , a ruined castle , museums and a house which once belonged to Anne of Cleves .
4	Equally intriguing is the bronze pony cap , which once belonged to Sir Walter Scott .
5	In 1912 he first used stencilled figures and letters in ‘ Guitare ’ , an oval painting owned by the Musée de Grenoble , and in 1913 adopted collage techniques , as in ‘ Tivoli-Cinéma ’ , a work which once belonged to Pablo Picasso .
6	The ‘ space ’ which once existed for police and pickets to negotiate a mutually acceptable code of picket-line conduct has been closed off , as the miners and striking print workers discovered to their cost .
7	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 .
8	The legality of money market dealings by Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London , which once amounted to exposure of £5bn is being challenged by its auditor , Anthony Hazell , a partner in Deloitte Haskins and Sells , with the support of the Audit Commission , the local authority financial watchdog .
9	CERTAINLY one of the more picturesque places on the railway scene is the site of the original Wye Valley Railway , which once ran between Chepstow and Monmouth .
10	Two churches which once stood in Wainfleet have long since been dismantled .
11	The creation therefore is not like some frictionless machine , which once set in motion carries on until stopped , but something which is dependent on the continuing work of its Creator .

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