"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Everything is contained within the embrace of the encircling canal and the old gates that once defended the city.
- I once defended a small village on Trieste from over a hundred of these things.
- He is very protective of his children, seeing them as the animals he once defended.
- "I once defended a serial killer, who cut his victims' throats and then raped them while they bled to death."
- He once defended a man accused of biting off his opponent's ear in a barroom fight.
- Some of the nation's largest companies have undertaken campaigns to reduce emissions that they once defended as being within regulatory limits.
- Having left Norris to defend for himself in jail once, there is every possibility the government/legal establishment/prison authorities will do so again.
- He only had two fights in 1996, once defending his world title.
- It is the only survivor of the four tower which once defended each corner of the bridge.
- He once defended a racist skinhead who'd committed a burglary while on parole.
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