Example sentences of "[pers pn] once [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I once went for a job as a fisherman . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Luckily a feature she once did for the programme gave Christine some clothes tips which she has followed faithfully ever since . |
| 5 | He once sung for an international audience of 1,000 , in the middle of a moat in Israel . |