Sentence examples for had once been given from inspiring English sources

In crowded Notting Hill last week, a man told me his car had once been given a penalty notice while he was away at the ticket machine paying his £1.60 for 30 minutes.

Michael Baldwin, a third-year student at New College, noted that Galloway had once been given an honorary Palestinian passport, and said the MP would be "rightly indignant" if someone refused to debate him because of it.

He'd started seeing a new-ish girlfriend and was anxious what level of present to buy her: too showy would look over-keen, he thought, but he had once been given aftershave by a now-ex and wanted to give some hint of thought and effort.

Sebastian Coe, a Conservative peer who had held, as a professional, the world mile record that had once been Bannister's, gave a dismal showing in his testimony about his time in the International Association of Athletics Federations.

In these and other discussions with would-be opponents of my EAP model, I've never once been given any semblance of an explanation of how shared custody and domestic violence prevention could coexist in legislation, despite repeated attempts to draw an answer from my critics.

Instead, he suggested, it referred to the institution of the Malay monarchs, who had once been the "masters", but gave up their primacy when the Federal Constitution was adopted at independence.

Intimidated by Updike and Joyce, as he had once been intimidated by jocks, he gave up a dream to be a writer.

He said that he had once been a Boy Scout but had given it up.

Oprah had once been O'Donnell's biggest cheerleader, even giving the new show her old studio, director, and stage manager.

Yet even with this unusual leverage — without a deal, taxes would have increased for everyone — the Democrats got only about 60 percent of what the House speaker, John A. Boehner, had once been willing to give on taxes.

One asked, "What does your personality have to do with it?" They had been educated and assessed in all the academic subjects, yet they had never once been given the tools to examine their own personalities.