Example sentences of "had once [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 2 | This was the miners , whom Harold Macmillan had once bracketed with the Catholic Church and the Brigade of Guards as institutions with which no Conservative government ought ever to tangle . |
| 3 | He had once believed in the perfect system . |
| 4 | These were the Azems who had once served in the French army or even the French air force but who later turned against their French masters — and their minority supporters in Syria — and died fighting them . |
| 5 | This Englishman , who had once served in the British Army , had steamed that letter open with all the careful deliberation of an espionage agent . |
| 6 | He said members of the London-based Order had once lived at the convent but numbers had reduced when he bought it . |
| 7 | One day the family returned who had once lived in the cottage occupied now by Lucie , Izzie and Gabriel . |
| 8 | The nomes who had once flown in the Ship had obviously grown lots of plants that way . |
| 9 | Life , as he had once said to the Zoo Curator , was wonderful and a man had best enjoy it while he may . |
| 10 | Lord Marshall had once said about the old Magnox stations that , even if they were n't economic now , there would still be ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 11 | There was the weighted velvet curtain that had once hung in the Star Theatre , now fixed to a huge rod with rings so large that Frankie could slip them over his arms like bangles . |
| 12 | In the centre a cruciform plinth marked the spot where a triumphal arch faced with marble had once towered above the sea to remind passing ships of the might of the Roman Empire . |
| 13 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 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 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 16 | It was like one of the rooms Little Billy had once seen in the Queen 's Dolls ' House at Windsor Castle . |
| 17 | There was no fire there , now , no sign of life , nor of the spirit that had once shrieked at the local folk who had emerged from the fortress demesne to loot and honour the dead : Four black-robed women and one man , robed in grey , a greybeard : he had understood the mythology of stone . |
| 18 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |
| 19 | Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection . |
| 20 | The star is Jamie Lee Curtis , who in those days , well before A Fish Called Wanda , was the acknowledged holder of the ‘ scream queen ’ title which had once rested on the shapely shoulders of Evelyn Ankers . |
| 21 | The radical attack on señorios came from Aragon and Valencia where the confusion between rent payment and feudal dues was most marked and where the lords had transferred to their Christian subjects the obligations that had once rested on the moriscos . |
| 22 | He had stumbled on a reference to it in an English journal — a painter had once disappeared into the peat fields to escape civilisation . |
| 23 | A volume bound in human skin which had once passed through the hands of a certain Jack Doveston . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 26 | They could spend their honeymoon staying in the old farmhouse which had once belonged to the d'Urbervilles , while Angel studied at the mill nearby . |
| 27 | It was interesting that it had once belonged to the Ballaters . |
| 28 | After details of the case emerged , the student movement never regained the broad base and wide influence it had once had on the Japanese political scene . |
| 29 | He had once fought for the French , but they had not promoted him beyond the rank of colonel , she had deserted to the British who had rewarded his defection with a knighthood and a generalship , but even so , he still felt slighted . |
| 30 | He saw clips of them with their heads together across a table in a wine bar , or making love in the garden of a cottage they had once rented in the New Forest , or building a sand castle with the twins on their first family holiday together at the seaside . |