Sentence examples for had been once from inspiring English sources

Built in 1920, it had been, once.

Timothy Carner, said Private Chen had been once discovered sleeping in a portable toilet.

More Frequent Trips Until his bicycle accident, his visits to the casino had been once a week or less, his friends said.

I had been once already and knew what to expect; it's been a breath of fresh air to be doing something challenging again.

The cabins were certainly not the luxury option they had been once, but they were still in a reasonable condition and comfortable enough.

An early riser, I developed the habit of drinking my first cup of coffee on the deck, the shadowy outline of Mount Tam as familiar to me, over time, as New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain had been once.

Remember, every friend you have ever had was once a stranger.

"I've been once, and I hated it," Madeley declares.

She has been once or twice out of curiosity, "but didn't understand it much".

And our national tendency toward amateur criminology has been, once again, engaged.

"Is there a Signor Vanni?" "There would have been once, yes".