Example sentences of "he have once [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 2 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 3 | He remembered a conversation he 'd once had with his brother , who had teased him about his interest in the works of Elinor Dove . |
| 4 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 5 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The proud possessor of a fragment of the Infant Jesus 's vest , a toy he had once played with ( Benjamin would have been proud of that ) , and a hair from St Peter 's beard which could cure the ague or a sore throat . |
| 8 | He drew open the neck of the leather bag that lay beside him , and reached inside to withdraw with loving care that same psaltery he had once played in Donata 's bedchamber , polished sounding-board and stretched strings shining like new . |
| 9 | He was talking about his childhood in Wales and how he had once wanted to be a detective . |
| 10 | He had once believed in the perfect system . |
| 11 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 12 | Richard , back from work after a tiresome day , stopped on the Embankment to look , and remembered that he had once gone on board the Waalhaven for a drink when she put in at Orfordness . |
| 13 | Turning to face her , he was visited suddenly , not by desire , but by a memory , inconveniently intense , of the desire he had once felt for her . |
| 14 | Reason said he could n't possibly have any recollection of a nineteen-year-old nobody he had once caused to be dismissed from her first job , but the knowledge of her bones was stronger . |
| 15 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 16 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 17 | He had once said to Anna , in a touching burst of confidence , ‘ You know what 's the matter with me ? |
| 18 | Life , as he had once said to the Zoo Curator , was wonderful and a man had best enjoy it while he may . |
| 19 | As he had once said to John , you took Comfort as she was or you ignored her , and he enjoyed her enough to put up with her . |
| 20 | Although he had once thought about going on stage he has opted instead for directing . |
| 21 | And a gold-plated pen , the one he had once used for signing autographs , a memento of the good days . |
| 22 | And journey he did ; from The Bar Boy would be taken home and driven at night down all those same streets down and round which he had once walked by daylight . |
| 23 | And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’ |
| 24 | that he had once lain with me |
| 25 | There were some World Wildlife Fund posters and a carving of a red-throated diver he had once bought in Orkney . |
| 26 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 27 | He walked slowly up the familiar road admiring the shops he had once dreamed of owning . |
| 28 | He had once fought for the French , but they had not promoted him beyond the rank of colonel , she had deserted to the British who had rewarded his defection with a knighthood and a generalship , but even so , he still felt slighted . |
| 29 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |
| 30 | The noble owner returned around nine o'clock , and renewed his acquaintance with Dr Johnson , with whom he had once dined in London . |