Example sentences of "once [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHATTING to former England all-rounder Trevor Bailey during the Old Trafford Test , I was intrigued to discover that he once played football against Manchester United in front of 57,000 spectators . |
| 2 | In addition he once observed self-masturbation to ejaculation and the manual masturbation of companions . |
| 3 | The flats are the only relic of the lost Lake Bonneville , which once covered parts of Utah , Nevada and Idaho to a depth of 1,000 feet . |
| 4 | A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck . |
| 5 | The significance of the find lies in identification of the villa with the Lucrezi family and the evidence that this area once formed part of Pompeii 's suburbs . |
| 6 | We once bought underwear at Marks & Spencer , too , but it shrunk quite a bit , which might explain certain aspects of Mrs Thatcher 's personality . |
| 7 | She never once gave way to despair or sentimentality . |
| 8 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 9 | Where their parents once had posters of Che Guevara , James Connolly , Rudi Dutschke and Rosa Luxemburg on their walls , Alice and Henry have Kylie Minogue , Madonna and Nelson Mandela at Wembley . |