Example sentences of "had once told " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had once told her scornfully about a crazy book produced on the contemporary new wave of evolutionary theory : a book which abandoned Darwin and returned to his predecessor , Lamark . |
| 2 | Now , with it in her hands , she knew absolutely that it was not a worthless Victorian copy , as Rachel had once told her . |
| 3 | Some of it was instinct with Davidson , of course , but most of it was solid experience , starting , as Davidson had once told him , with his being seduced by the school-dinner lady at the age of thirteen in his native Ayrshire . |
| 4 | He knew women could n't resist flowers — Karen had once told him so . |
| 5 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 6 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 7 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 8 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 9 | Buckmaster 's wife , Leonora , had once told a woman friend , |
| 10 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 11 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 12 | In a rare moment of fatherly frankness , he had once told Jack of his dreams of floating the company on the stock market , of the Reg Butler ( Entertainments ) Corporation being a name in the City , of maybe even being Lord Reg one day . |
| 13 | He recalled something the Operations Manager , Mr Amin , had once told him . |
| 14 | All along the terrace , on the low wall that bounded it , stood the statuary his father had once told him had been placed there by whoever inhabited the place before Hilbert and Lilian came . |
| 15 | ‘ I should like to bury something precious in every place where I 've been happy , ’ Sebastian had once told him , after wine and strawberries on a summer hilltop , ‘ and then , when I was old and ugly and miserable , I could come back and dig it up and remember . ’ |
| 16 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 17 | ‘ We Queens must stick together , ’ Minton had once told John Norris Wood who had expressed surprise at Minton 's devotion to the Queen Mother . |
| 18 | She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son . |
| 19 | Interrogations were like poker , an old detective inspector had once told her , they depended on bluff . |
| 20 | This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve , whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study . |
| 21 | " Keep the bowels open and trust in God , " an elderly colleague had once told me . |
| 22 | Fred had once told Lorton that he reckoned to make his beer money from playing pool , and perhaps a little bit over for the dogs . |
| 23 | Sir Frank , who had earned his knighthood by making house calls only at houses where there might be photographers waiting outside , had once told George he drank too much . |
| 24 | Well , that 's what Nassim had once told us . |
| 25 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's like our father , ’ Ryan had once told her . |
| 27 | Rosemary had once told her the amount she was paying in rent . |
| 28 | Simon had once told her how if a Formula One driver blinked during a race it was the same as him driving thirty yards with his eyes shut , and Vitor 's stare was unrelenting . |
| 29 | Suddenly , she remembered someone had once told her that falling in love was a frightening experience . |