Example sentences of "[vb past] once [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this the man , he straddled the boy , who had once run from a girl ? |
| 2 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 3 | Even if the things he kept from his wife — had once kept from parents , brother , girlfriends — were very minor , he had to have them , had , if need be , to create them . |
| 4 | I do n't really know why I always went unless it was to remind myself that I too had once come from some other world than the one in which I lived . |
| 5 | And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’ |
| 6 | The crunchy texture was like a raw potato she had once stolen from Mrs Parvis 's vegetable rack . |
| 7 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 8 | Indeed , Clara knew from first hand experience the moral truth of the story told in The Golden Windows about the house with the golden windows , for she had once admired from a friend 's house the whole dazzling , distant , smoky lay-out of her own hillside . |