Example sentences of "had once lived " in BNC.
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| 1 | What plodded through the front door was not the lovable , lazy hound who had once lived there but a grim-faced light bulb serial killer ! |
| 2 | She settled in a four-roomed cottage with a garden at No. 13 Rue Norvins , where Zola had once lived . |
| 3 | The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved . |
| 4 | Now , living in the cottage where his father and mother had once lived , he was the only indigenous , true specimen left of the village . |
| 5 | Out there in the gathering darkness was the tenement where Rob had once lived with his mother and brothers . |
| 6 | In early 1946 he moved into 19 Carlyle Mansions , a large and comfortable flat on the third floor , beneath the one in which Henry James had once lived . |
| 7 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 8 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 9 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 10 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 11 | He almost told her that he had once lived a year with a girl he had married navvy-style , over the anvil , and had got her with child before she ran away from him . |
| 12 | One day the family returned who had once lived in the cottage occupied now by Lucie , Izzie and Gabriel . |
| 13 | He said members of the London-based Order had once lived at the convent but numbers had reduced when he bought it . |
| 14 | She was virtually retired these days , her hotel ( where Coffin had once lived ) turned into small flats over whose tenants she kept a stern eye . |