In the event, the government, having been burned once, decided to take no action.

The house was burned once and fired on three other times.

He'd been burned once, and he was determined not to trust again.

I think I'd rather be burned once in a while than have no heart.

Yet your face burned once under his hand, and the young prince loves you.

The people once even burned a prophet themselves because he had taken three wives.

Already her skin chilled where the heat of his touch once burned.

After the fire that once burned in her eyes had dimmed?

He'd given her some uneasy explanation about having been burned once when he was a child, but the question got him thinking.

He got burned once coming here, he's not going to try it again.