Example sentences of "she had once [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 2 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 3 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
| 4 | She had once studied to be a concert pianist and had been a pupil of Paderewski in Dresden in the summer of 1921 . |
| 5 | ‘ She could n't believe a man she had once regarded as an uncle figure could turn against her so viciously , ’ one of her closest friends says . |
| 6 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 7 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ Carrie promised and remembered she had once said ‘ Do n't laugh ’ to him . |
| 9 | He had not denied it — he had explained it instead , which was worse , she had once said angrily . |
| 10 | A farmer 's wife giving evidence at the Otmoor M40 inquiry in 1983 described how she had once become completely lost in one of her own fields while counting sheep . |
| 11 | She had once embraced the world with her enthusiasm , laughed at life , had been filled with compassion for those less fortunate , and what was she now ? |
| 12 | I would not like to be kept alive by a machine , like a vegetable , day in day out , she had once decided , I would prefer to accept my appointed day . |
| 13 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 14 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 15 | Her mother gave in to this demand because otherwise Kim had bad tantrums during which she had once broken a glass dividing door and on another occasion a dining chair . |
| 16 | It had been three years since Katherine Lundy had shot the man she had once loved . |
| 17 | Exhausted , Morthen 's wounding cuts hurting her , she remained seated here , watching the cleft in the cliff over the gaunt and grimacing features of the man she had once loved . |
| 18 | Daniel adeptly and too obviously converted a reminiscence of his Mum 's about a joint of pork she had once cooked into a general conversation about Christmases past . |
| 19 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 20 | He knew that the embers of whatever she had once felt for her fiancé still glowed . |
| 21 | Anna supposed that she should then have had another baby , to keep Flora company , but had found that she felt as unlike having another baby as she had once felt like it . |
| 22 | In a single school term she had once sent to private sanatoriums as many as four boys and two girls with a weakness of the lungs . |
| 23 | She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars . |
| 24 | If she had , she might now be wearing the crown of England instead of being holed up in Gloucester Castle , her supporters scattered and dwindling , and what little popularity she had once possessed destroyed by her own hand . |
| 25 | The trick with the little fingers was the only thing she remembered from a piece she had once written on self-defence courses for women . |
| 26 | There was nowhere ; not even the pantry into which she had once thrust an amused but resisting Johnny . |
| 27 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 28 | With Brian away so much of the week , would she have the strength of character to sit down and try to write as she had once imagined ? |
| 29 | She had once heard Betty calling Jane Austen ‘ dear Jane ’ . |
| 30 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |