Sentence examples for was once when from inspiring English sources

There was once, when the French existentialists saw the world darkly back in 1950s Paris.

There was once when he broke his hand, but even the next day he was desperate to get back playing.

My mother, who was totally deaf but good at lip-reading, was once when she was a widow taken out to dinner by one of my father's ex-pupils.

Time was once, when if you didn't have a North Face logo and a Nalgene bottle visible at all times, you would be siezed by a mob, coated in sap, and showered with pine needles.

He continued: "There was once when we were in Vegas where the tour guy, a fixer, said, 'You're going to Vegas, guys you want a hooker?' We were all, 'Yeah!' And I requested two.

A few people had gathered by the big stones that were once, when upright, set as a triptych and orientated towards the rising sun.

He was once asked, when testifying in a libel case, whether he was a Christian, a Jew, or an atheist.

He also recalled that Paul O'Neill was once upset "when we found him bashing things down the hallway from the dugout.

Olga was once frightened when she witnessed a policeman arresting someone on the street.

#The view that 'there was once that when he was not' was rejected to maintain the co-eternity of the Son with the Father.

But there was once a time when he stood for something more substantial.(Photo credit: AFP).