Example sentences of "[pron] [noun prp] had once " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following evening Franca , Alison and Irina were together in what Jack laughingly called the women 's quarters , a room just beyond the kitchen which Franca had once designated as her sitting room or ‘ boudoir ’ , but which , before Alison 's arrival , she had not much frequented . |
| 2 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 3 | Robbie knew that there were two younger boys in her friend 's new family , Angus and Anthony , whom Caro had once described scornfully as being ‘ disgusting little objects who left uneaten pizzas to go mouldy under their beds ’ . |
| 4 | Something Flynn had once said to him kept repeating itself in his mind . |
| 5 | But although she was also one of Kraus 's greatest admirers she had dared to read Heine , of whom Kraus had once said : ‘ Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today even little salesman can fondle her breasts . ’ |
| 6 | What was it Adams had once said to him apropos talking to Edna : it 's a gamble . |
| 7 | Well , that 's what Nassim had once told us . |