Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he had once " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think that goddamn racket means we should all be dead , ’ he announced cheerfully , then carried on with an involved story of how he had once won undying glory by intercepting a pass against the Philadelphia Faggots . |
| 2 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 3 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 4 | He was talking about his childhood in Wales and how he had once wanted to be a detective . |
| 5 | One leading search consultant described how he had once mistakenly presented the wrong candidate for a job . |
| 6 | He delighted his acolytes with tales about his time in the Army and how he had once lost an entire platoon . |
| 7 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 8 | Then , after Mr Dalglish had shocked the soccer world by resigning in the middle of last season , Mr Moran left the boot room to steady the ship , until Graeme Souness was free to leave Glasgow Rangers and return to Liverpool , where he had once been a key player . |