Sentence examples for having once built from inspiring English sources

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He knows something about spotting diamonds in the dirt, having once built a thriving antiques business by salvaging furniture and knickknacks that New Yorkers had kicked to the curb without a thought.

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As non-Arabs, they had once built an alliance based on being outsiders.

His walk through the woods took him on a journey through time, past his childhood home and the tree where he had once built a fort.

Ted, during the first weeks, had liked to seek her out and tell her gruesome tales; his favorite one concerned a homemade rat guillotine that he and Henry had once built for a neurologist's study.

By early 1845 he felt more restless than ever, until he decided to take up an idea of a Harvard classmate who had once built a waterside hut in which one could loaf or read.

After the election, he "put down his tools" — as they say in his trade — and went to Brooks Brothers, where he had once built a staircase, to buy a new suit.

Both found it absurd that a city that had once built and run its own schools, hospitals, museums, transportation and social services should languish under the lash of Whitehall.

She made friends with local djs, had an expensive musical education, did whatever it took to get backstage, and had once built a harpsicord from a kit.

It was still an ally of the United States, which had once built a canal across its territory, controlled its politics for years, and in 1989 sent in the U.S. military to forcefully sort out those politics once again.

Where he had once judiciously built his conjectures about Conan Doyle's life, he now seemed reckless.

In the Atlantic Wire, Rebecca Greenfield wrote about how Apple has, once again, built products that duplicate those made by other companies — putting its competitors in a potentially perilous position.

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