Furthermore, isotopic analyses of fat residues in Botai pottery fragments revealed that the pots had once held horse milk.
In 1942, Mr. Davis became public service commissioner, the same job that Huey Long had once held.
As a treat, my grandmother let me smell a ball of nutmeg, which was kept in a round tin that had once held cough pastilles.
But when it turned out that a leading Salafist's late mother had once held an American passport, the wording changed.Countries that have shed communist dictatorship are more liberal.
Periodically, Spindler pointed out details: a place where a door used to be barred, a brick frame that had once held an inscribed tablet.
A recent poll in Pennsylvania, Mr. Santorum's home state, now shows an essentially tied race, after Mr. Santorum had once held a clear lead there.
While the franchise expanded during some moments and in some places, it contracted in others, depriving Americans of a right they had once held.
The news agency quoted Mr. Park, of Tucson, Ariz., as saying he was ashamed of the "biased" view he had once held of North Korea.
The box of damp matches; the single moth-eaten stocking, removed from a corpse; the tiny empty vial that had once held extract of vanilla!
Climbing on stacks of empty boxes that had once held gauze or cotton balls, we'd stare through the window into the examination room.
But for 12 years he was homeless in Manhattan, addicted to crack, though he had once held jobs in advertising, public relations and other media.
