Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] once [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked slowly up the familiar road admiring the shops he had once dreamed of owning . |
| 2 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 3 | He realized with a shock that they reminded him of steers he had once seen in a railroad siding back home in Richmond , Virginia , crowded uncomprehendingly in trucks bound for the slaughterhouse . |
| 4 | In truth , one can remember once , in the professional 's shop at Augusta , finding the great Gary Player thoughtfully fingering a set of Cleveland woods which reminded him of some Ben Hogan woods he had once owned . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , two hundred years after Charles 's death , the inhabitants of the lands he had once ruled were identified as Kerlinger , Carlenses : " Charles 's men " ; and in the thirteenth century , when King Louis IX arranged at St-Denis the tombs of the kings who had preceded him , he left two in positions of special honour , the Merovingian Dagobert , greatest of the First Frankish dynasty , and Charles the Bald . |