"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That means giving a second chance to Parker despite the past outrage expressed against major colleges that once coveted the 6-foot-5-inch guard, back when Parker was on everyone's recruiting list.
- Are these the foes we once feared, the allies we once coveted?
- "No other avenue is so identified with law firms that once coveted a Park Avenue address," noted James B. Frederick, a principal at the real estate brokerage Abrams Benisch Riker/Colliers.
- Lemieux, the big, young one, the heir apparent, covets Gretzky's Stanley Cup rings the way he once coveted his predecessor's scoring statistics and million-dollar contract.
- He continues to move those he once coveted to receive pieces currently discarded.
- He was asked to leave the job he once coveted for years, the one for which he waited patiently if anxiously in the spring of 1992 while a slow-moving search process eliminated more-established candidates.
- Still, there is concern that general managers who once coveted the 6-foot-1, 206-pound Weathersby may pass over him.
- Kleinman once coveted the position of managing partner, and considered himself in line to take over when Steinbrenner was banished for his $40,000 payment to an admitted gambler, Howard Spira.
- For the past two Sundays, Marvin Jones has evoked memories of the rampaging linebacker from Florida State the Jets once coveted more than any player in college except Drew Bledsoe.
- Suddenly Lee Cattermole, the sometimes less than angelic captain, resembles the midfielder Liverpool once coveted rather than a booking-prone liability.
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