Sentence examples for had once before from inspiring English sources

* As recently as last May, according to officials of the city's Probation Department, the boy's grandmother appealed for help at Family Court, where she had once before sought to have him designated a person in need of supervision, and was referred to the Childrens Aid Society.

Once, on a high mountain Prinz is fearful of his face and hands freezing, as they had once before, so, at her insistence, he skiis down and lets her come down by herself, which she does with some difficulty View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By George Packer By Alan Burdick.

Once, on a high mountain Prinz is fearful of his face and hands freezing, as they had once before, so, at her insistence, he skiis down and lets her come down by herself, which she does with some difficulty View Article By Jelani Cobb By Joan Acocella By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino.

Schreiber, known to play tricks on the media, had once before called her his wife in 2007, but later revealed that it was a joke.

The unemployment rate had once before declined in 2009, from June to July, before proceeding to rise for the next three months.

Mellinger had once before served on a high-profile jury, in the case of one of the white men accused of murdering Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst in 1989.

I have, once before, cycled that long in rain so severe and persistent.

Mr. de Klerk has once before forced the commission officials to court and won an apology from them for calling him a liar.

As historian Arthur Herman has noted in his book How the Scots Invented the World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It, Scotland has once before had an outsized impact on the world.

A simple answer that White fails to explore is that Hiss, having once before eluded an F.B.I. inquiry, too hastily committed himself to denial.

He was, in a sense, as powerless before his victims as they had once been before him.