Sentence examples for once complimented from inspiring English sources

Buy from Amazon.co.ukA READER once complimented William Golding on his book, "The Lord of the Rings"—a cruel twist for a man who is famous for just one book.

I long since tired of correcting the misapprehension, while for Andy, the final straw came when his own father once complimented him about that fine piece he wrote for The Independent.

A newspaper reporter once complimented Renzo Piano, the architect of The New York Times Building on Eighth Avenue, on his design, noting that the building reminded him of a sheet of newsprint.

"I once complimented him on a dissent, and he held up four fingers with a wistful smile," Akhil Amar, a professor at Yale Law School, who clerked for Breyer on the federal Court of Appeals in the mid-eighties, says.

A journalist once complimented him on FBO's recent output: "You have had some good pictures this year".

His commanding officer, William Young, once complimented him for keeping Bedford in a state of high discipline without once resorting to a flogging over a period of five months and three weeks.

Strauss, a former music journalist for the New York Times, is most famous for popularizing "the neg," a pickup maneuver in which a man at once compliments and insults a woman, supposedly putting the man in control.

It "required the most effort of any to assemble and install," said Mr. Simonds, but once completed, he complimented the "quality construction".

"He complimented me once," Mr. Stoll said, "when we were doing Hemingway's first scene".

He once said after being complimented for self-reporting a penalty, "You may as well praise a man for not robbing a bank".

To top it off, my adviser actually complimented me once it was over.