Example sentences of "there [was/were] once [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the W.I. Survey , 1975 , there was once a cooper 's workshop here . |
| 2 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
| 3 | As the name suggests , there was once a ferry crossing the river from here to the village of South Ferriby on the south bank , probably from Viking times — about AD 876 until 1300 . |
| 4 | In a lighter vein — There was once a man who was at work kibble filling . |
| 5 | There was once a king who decided that it was time for his son to marry . |
| 6 | There was once a hotel in Somerset which proved conclusively that its three stars from the AA and RAC were an indication of facilities , not design standards , . |
| 7 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 8 | There was once a vestry built out here , and er this doorway was put in so that the vicar could get into the vestry to change his clothes . |
| 9 | There was once a golf correspondent for a respected national newspaper who , from beside the green , used to urge slow players to ‘ get on with it , do n't you know my life is ebbing away ’ . |
| 10 | There was once a cat called Nutmeg . |
| 11 | The plateau of Paúl da Serra itself is an extensive moorland area where there was once a proposal to build an international airport . |
| 12 | There was once a wave that was Victor Hugo 's wave . |
| 13 | There was once a girl called Vasilissa whose mother had died , and whose father married again . |
| 14 | ‘ There was once a hell of a lot of work done by someone we know in three days . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There was once a bumper sticker that read ‘ remember the good old days when air was clean and sex was dirty ? ’ |
| 16 | There 's a gateway over at that forestry plantation , and there was once a castle there . |
| 17 | There was once a tribe of Indians in the far north-west of the United States ( I 'm not inventing them ) , who lived an extraordinarily easy life . |
| 18 | The street is in three parts : Market Street , because there was once a market ; Church Street , because of the Church of King Charles the Martyr , built at the Restoration ; and Arwenack Street , because it leads eventually to Arwenack House , all that is left of the home of the Killigrews , a mixed bag of soldiers , dramatists , pirates and entrepreneurs , who founded the town and built the church . |