Sentence examples for had once stood on from inspiring English sources
Comparing historical photographs of Prince of Wales Island with the Price image, and with a news photograph of Barrymore standing by the totem pole at Bella Vista, Rowan and Langdon concluded that a pole that had once stood on the beach at Tuxecan matched the one that had shown up in Beverly Hills.
He includes a picture of them in front of a map of the camp that attempts to evoke what had once stood on these empty fields.
Their digging over several years had failed to turn up clues to what had once stood on the plaza's eastern side.
One of the UK's first city farms, it opened in 1976 only to be shut down in 2002 when the soil was found to be contaminated with lead from the paint factory that had once stood on the site.
The Jehoash tablet had a politically explosive inscription, in ancient Hebrew, on sandstone, which referred to Solomon's Temple, and seemed to prove that the Temple had once stood in Jerusalem, on the site of the Temple Mount.
A compact, atmospheric venue where even the Chelsea captain John Terry — a man not known for his eagerness to eulogize rival clubs' stadiums and supporters — acknowledged that the hair on his arms had once stood up during a European Champions League match, Anfield is now at the center of a bold plan to bring it, and Liverpool, up to date.
A grid of piers sat in the grass, little white platforms forming a curious grid on which a house had once stood.
We stood on the front porch looking directly into the canyon behind where the house had once stood.
Local Serbs who died fighting alongside the JNA were buried by the Croatian Serb authorities on a plot of land where Croatian houses had once stood.
That response ― and the president's decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem ― signaled how far Trump has moved from where he once stood on Israel.
Here and there, bits of old buildings that once stood on the site had been incorporated into the design: a classical pediment from a bank, for instance.
