Sentence examples for had once put from inspiring English sources

This spear, called the gular scute, had once put someone in mind of a plow.

But as he had once put it in his colourful way: "You can't swap horses in midstream".

Mr. Goldstein, who now rents an apartment two blocks away, had once put his name on a list to learn more about the Nets' plans.

"Jean-Claude's specialty is atypical things," she explained to Dubrule, recalling that Ellena had once put essence of tomato leaf in a perfume.

When his grandmother died he inherited her violin because, as she had once put it, no one had played it more beautifully than Martin.

Lt Col Ewen Southby-Tailyour, a retired Royal Marine, told the gathering he had once put a dying colleague "to sleep".

Even the 1950s crooner Perry Como makes an appearance, having once put a fallen star in his pocket.

Mr. Naify, whose net worth had once been put at $385 million, made money from a chain of California movie theaters.

In Tunisia, just about any image of a person on a public building had once been put there in the service of dictatorship.

On Wednesday, Colbert announced that Viacom had once again put the kibosh on his plans.

Smithfield had once proposed putting a pig farm in La Gloria itself, but residents protested the move, and ill will between the company and the villagers remains.