"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He thus took back from Ebeid certain powers that he had once bestowed.
- He was not a demonstrative person, but the warmth of personality, once bestowed, was very precious to me.
- Each grade may only be bestowed once upon the same person.
- This recognition is among the highest titles in Bamum society, and once bestowed is passed down from generation to generation.
- Entitlements, however, once bestowed, are very difficult to rescind.
- This grinning monstrosity had once bestowed its distant smile upon several generations of cinema-going heads.
- Like the sari, the expression wasn't quite as salacious as the one she'd once bestowed on prospective customers, but it came close.
- That same flat-eyed, deadly stare Jeremy had once bestowed upon him on Terra.
- But it is all too well known that new licenses, once bestowed, would be good for another two decades.
- Hurstwood was still worthy, in a physical sense, of the affection his wife had once bestowed upon him, but in a social sense he fell short.
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