Example sentences of "[verb] once [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's eerie walking silently between these ghost summer villages that must have once echoed to children playing , women gossiping and men complaining about being paid for their labours with books of Gaelic poetry . |
| 2 | He had once said to Anna , in a touching burst of confidence , ‘ You know what 's the matter with me ? |
| 3 | As he had once said to John , you took Comfort as she was or you ignored her , and he enjoyed her enough to put up with her . |
| 4 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |
| 5 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 6 | So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife . |
| 7 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 8 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 9 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 10 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 11 | The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia . |
| 12 | Although later in the fourteenth century some limits were placed upon the vulnerable houses , those outside royal patronage which had once yielded to pressure had forfeited their immunity . |