Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] once [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 2 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 3 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 4 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 5 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 6 | the unzipped valise that had once belonged to her sister Christine . |
| 7 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 8 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 9 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |