Except for my face, I don't feel things the way I could once.

"It's very hard to do topical political nonfiction the way publishers once could."

She can no longer farm or provide for her children as she once could.

She can't pick up her feet the way she once could, can hardly walk.

"Do you think it would help someone whose eyes can't see the holes as well as they once could?"

His eyes could see in the dark now better than they once could.

"I have been free," he muttered through the blood, but the words failed to cheer him as they once could.

You can't shake things off the way you once could.

Mr. Cosby said he did not expect the networks to be in a position to back a show the way they once could.

She could once, but that was long ago.