Sentence examples for had once pointed from inspiring English sources

A brewer had once pointed out to me how much more vulnerable to microbial contamination bottles are than cans.

It was a family joke that the writer had once pointed to the lights of Readville, a nearby slummy milltown and said, in baby talk, "Stars".

He bought it for a fiver, and then wondered where on earth was "Craco" – the place it had once pointed to.

But if chimpanzees had once pointed the way toward a tetchy but less than menacing common ancestor, they could no longer do so: Goodall had documented bloodlust in our closest relative.

"People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing," she is said to have once pointed out.

She had once been pointed out to me on the street: thin and pretty, with an atmosphere of awkward intensity and passion about her, gesticulating, surrounded by interesting-looking boys.

To make her point, she has once again pointed to votes Mr. Lazio has cast in Congress.

The Democrats have never once pointed out that as job destroying and labor-devaluing technology advances and the scale of economic growth becomes too expensive for the resources of average people, only the rich will own the enterprises that generate the bulk of production.

A Giants lead that had once been 17 points was reduced to 2 with more than eight minutes remaining, and Kerry Collins jogged onto the field, clapped his hands and leaned into the huddle.

What had once been a frontier lookout point for Israeli visitors was closed off with coils of barbed wire.

Mr. Bush, who had once trailed Mr. Reagan by 30 points in the New Hampshire polls, surged to the lead in some surveys there.