Sentence examples for it once stood from inspiring English sources

Those who genuinely value the building and what it once stood for should regard its alleged success with the utmost suspicion.

The Bronx House of Detention was demolished in 2000 (a Staples and a Home Depot now occupy the land where it once stood), and the Queens House which had its own sordid streak of violence was closed by the DOC in 2002.

Housed from 2011 to 2015 outdoors, near the Cantor Art Center's North Lawn, Sequence literally left behind its footprint, reminding visitors where all 235 tons of it once stood.

Today all that remains in the recess where it once stood are two mounds that were once its feet.

These days the tree, with its dark, downward-bending boughs, is separated from the old cemetery it once stood next to.

Fortunately, it once stood in the residence of the Viennese collector Oskar Bondy.

Assuming this is correct, then given that the surface of Lark Shoal is presently 9 m below mean sea level, this suggests that, if the island it was once stood above mean high-water level (as it must have been as it was inhabited), then it has subsided at least a net 12 m or so since this time.

The sign, it seems, once stood outside the Madoff family's beachside retreat on Long Island – at 216 Old Montauk Highway.

The historian Arnold Toynbee recalled that as a child he was a marveling spectator at Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897, when Britain appeared "to be standing still in the midst of Heaven, as it had once stood there at the bidding of Joshua". Young Toynbee could scarcely have foreseen that the entire imperial edifice would crumble in his lifetime.

The historian Arnold Toynbee recalled that as a child he was a marveling spectator at Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897, when Britain appeared "to be standing still in the midst of Heaven, as it had once stood there at the bidding of Joshua".

The most important, if distressing, images to emerge from those hours are not of the raging towers, or of the vacuum where they once stood; it is the shots of people falling from the ledges, and, in particular, of two people jumping in tandem.