Example sentences of "once [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone here once told me a story about the most notorious of the dictators who ruled this country at the turn of the century . |
| 2 | Thing once told me the Ship flies very fast . |
| 3 | And Managing Director Richard Doyle-Davidson once showed me the ceiling of his office where water was seeping in . |
| 4 | Eliot at once sent him a cablegram , saying that he was one to whom all contemporary poets owed a debt . |
| 5 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 6 | Remember you once offered me a job ? |
| 7 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 8 | This at once gave me the idea for the experimental design I wanted . |
| 9 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 10 | Brown , whose iconoclastic pronouncements and ascetic personal style once earned him the nickname " Governor Moonbeam " , urged the importance of restoring democracy and honesty to the political process . |
| 11 | The population there somebody once quoted me a figure of , I think it was four per cent of the American nation have passports . |