Sentence examples for I once set from inspiring English sources

I once set off for Cornwall in a pink camper van, but never got there.

I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day.

"I once set fire to the woods," Henry David Thoreau laconically confided to his journal in 1850, six years after he torched approximately 300 acres of Concord forest.

(I'm no expert on Birmingham but I once set a novel in Edwardian Halifax, which was similarly civic minded. ("The big celebrity in Halifax," a local historian told me, was the mayor").

I once set up a dating service on top of Twitter.

(A friend and I once set up an entire game of Settlers in a café and waited for a third player to materialize. It worked).

Re: "You Can Buy a Cellphone, but What Happened to Quaint?" (Feb. 8): I have lived in or near Brooklyn Heights for 26 years, and I never once set foot in Summa Gallery on Montague Street, but I was in the MAC store the first week it opened.

It's true that I never once set foot into a so-called legitimate theater during my holiday, though I went to a couple of parties that seemed to be under the impression they were just that.

Someone I know once set up a kind of bookcase maze in his office that his co-workers had to walk through to get to him, to ever so slightly raise the cost of interrupting him.

He acknowledged that he has "been optimistic about dates" but says that "I've never once set a date knowing that date is impossible".

Once set up, I didn't have a need to use the remote control on either unit, so just tuck it into the recessed portion of the stand arm to keep it out of your way.