Example sentences of "had once belong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 2 | There was , of course , a mortuary chapel — indeed Kensal Green had two chapels , so that Anglicans and Dissenters , even in death , could remain segregated ; but the dead had become divorced from the Christian communities to which they had once belonged . |
| 3 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 4 | So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife . |
| 5 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 6 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 7 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 8 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 9 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 10 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 11 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 12 | The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia . |
| 13 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 14 | the unzipped valise that had once belonged to her sister Christine . |
| 15 | They could spend their honeymoon staying in the old farmhouse which had once belonged to the d'Urbervilles , while Angel studied at the mill nearby . |
| 16 | The rival claimant , an Andreas Ruckers of 1651 , was produced by the piano house of John Broadwood and Sons , who deposed that this instrument had once belonged to Christopher Smith and thus might have been Handel 's . |
| 17 | These clothes she had on had once belonged to some Duchess , she said . |
| 18 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 19 | It was interesting that it had once belonged to the Ballaters . |
| 20 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |