Example sentences of "that she once " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Turpin remarks to the woman next to her that she once knew a girl who had everything a child could possibly want , but was still a spoilt , ungrateful brat . |
| 2 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 3 | Instead , all her warmth , her care and indeed her regal skills will be utilised to ensure that her grandchildren will inherit the respect that she once believed would come by right to her children . |
| 4 | We may think it hard-hearted of a Hagerhai woman to eat an animal that she once suckled , but at least the pig was recognised as an individual when it was alive — was even loved . |
| 5 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |