Examples of 'had once' in a sentence
Meaning of "had once"
This phrase implies that someone experienced or possessed something in the past but no longer does. It indicates that the mentioned person had a specific thing or situation at a previous point in time, emphasizing that it is no longer the case in the present
How to use "had once" in a sentence
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had once
I could tell she had once been beautiful.
You had once asked me who is in my heart.
Of whom the madam had once urged me to.
They had once helped each other.
Faustus is a monk who had once been a soldier.
If you had once in our lives said to me.
The song they had once shared.
She had once or twice gone off before.
The population had once again grown.
He had once been brought up to the scaffold.
But someone had once said to him.
I had once fought them face to face.
Someone she had once sent to jail.
I had once decided to serve him as my husband.
He told me how he had once been a rich man.
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Gob had once gotten married on a dare.
Great importance had once the greenhouses.
Who had once backed jefferson davis.
Something that had once been my wife.
It had once belonged to the revolutionary poet.
We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
We had once again received an order to counterattack.
Hard to believe it had once been full of people.
You had once asked me who was in my heart.
Parliament which he had once himself proposed.
That had once been full of such hope.
You have my parents had once met.
What we had once feared we came to admire.
I remembered what someone had once said.
Khalifa had once saved his life.
But it was never again as good as it had once been.
The world had once been our oyster.
He almost lost everything he had once had.
There had once been another war.
And firms that had once worked.
Ziaulhaq had once trained as a veterinary assistant.
A unique building that had once been a chapel.
Kareem had once thrown ink at a politician.
With the states it had once colonized.
Who had once ruled the world.
There is evidence that he had once been married.
What had once looked like a leader.
So he told the high chief he had once.
Ellsberg had once supported the war.
We focused on the love we had once felt.
That had once been wrapped in that blanket.
His coordination was almost what it had once been.
Chandler had once again forgotten his.
I remembered something my partner had once told me.
Life had once again become monotonous.
