Sentence examples for had once picked from inspiring English sources

Having returned to the family publishing business, the former British Prime Minister told her by what means he suspected the K.G.B. had once picked up his conversations with Khrushchev in a Moscow garden.

His murderer was a homosexual whom, in all likelihood, Versace had once picked up on South Beach, a prowling-ground for many of the bronzed hunks he is said to have entertained at Casa Casuarina.

I returned to the bus stop in West Texas where my family had once picked up a stranded Korean exchange student in 1994.

In a recent AP article a student at West Virginia University reported that a white student had once picked up his things and moved across the classroom when she sat near him.

He also claims to have once picked up Diego Maradona.

One night in 1988, 18-year-old Alicia Alexander, who had once been picked up by the police, walked out of her parents' house bound for the corner store to get a soda.

Her name was Anne Simms Stubenberg, and she recalled that Manookian, gave her painting lessons at the age of 7, had once angrily picked her up by the hair.

REUTERS Australian Private Equity Sector Voices Concern on Tax Hunt | The Australian Taxation Office has once again picked up its pursuit of TPG Capital Australia, demanding $739 million in unpaid taxes on gains the firm made on the Myer Department Stores I.P.O. in 2009.

The 50-year-old Cruise has battled allegations about his sexuality for years, and speculation since news of the divorce proceedings broke has once again picked up steam.

The transfusion of biographical elements had once more acted as a pick-me-up.

Seventeen years may have passed but the cause has, once again, been picked up by his son, Joe Corré.