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Example sentences for "having once"

  • Having once begun, it is a pleasure to me to tell you all I feel.

  • Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.

  • But Will, having once received a carte blanche for more than his usual yes and no, was not so easily quieted.

  • I yesterday dined with a lady, who assured me that it often cost her an hour to begin a letter; but, having once decided on the first five or six words, she could scribble on till doomsday.

  • For obvious reasons the Romans, having once found an easy direct pass across the main chain, did not trouble to seek for harder and more devious routes.

  • The lower Amazon presents every evidence of having once been an ocean gulf, the upper waters of which washed the cliffs near Obidos.

  • Having once settled it that I had been converted to methodism by Miss Mortimer, she was as impenetrable to all that I could urge, as if the name she gave to the speaker could have affected the nature and importance of the truth spoken.

  • Having once gone to Delphi, he ventured to make the following inquiry of the oracle (and, as I said, O Athenians!

  • And if, having once had it, we did not constantly forget it, we should always be born with this knowledge, and should always retain it through life.

  • I seemed now at liberty to remain in the Louvre as long as I might choose, having once entered it.

  • As he came up towards the gentleman with whom Montignac was talking, there suddenly came on me a sense of having once, in the dim past, been in strangely similar circumstances to those in which I was now.

  • The man and myself were alone together to maintain the fight which, having once entered, and being roused to the mood of contest, I had no thought of discontinuing now that Mlle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    assume that; except they; fifteen years; having caused; having come; having done; having found; having given; having gone; having learned; having listened; having lived; having many; having nothing; having previously; having received; having regard; having seen; having spent; having succeeded; having the; having written; thim days; this world; though there; weary land