Sentence examples for had once set from inspiring English sources

Keennon had once set it free among some real hummingbirds, and one of them, apparently mistaking it for a real bird, had relentlessly attacked it.

Another of the men was a pre-med student who had once set his sights on an internship at the Mayo Clinic.

The idea of blowing up the school came from a terrorist he calls Isam who had once set off 11 car bombs simultaneously.

Few of the neighbors had any idea that the frail old woman with no teeth had once set speed record after speed record driving for Bugatti in the 1930's.

Chon Thanh is located a few miles north of Firebase Gela, where Jeff was killed, and where the American troops had once set up a medical tent for Vietnamese villagers.

Other writers on Berlioz still quote Barzun, for example on the marriage to the unfortunate Harriet Smithson, where he explains that Berlioz was "so constituted that his tenacity would not let him yield anything on which he had once set his heart".

But where such a call might have once set off a political tempest among Communists, nationalists, reformers and Soviet hangers-on, this winter it provoked little reaction.

So when he was house hunting recently in the Philadelphia area, he used a new web technology called immersive photography to inspect a $2 million mansion, which he then bought without having once set foot inside.

After two years, she'll be killed, never having once set foot on solid ground or breathed fresh air.

Speculation arose recently that National Australia Bank had once again set its sights on Abbey National.

He also said he had grown up about four miles from the University and had not once set foot on campus.