I wanted her to hold me like my mother once had.

Perhaps he once had the chance to be a good man.

Real was a word he'd once had no problem using.

In the center of the floor someone had once, long ago, set a fire.

Yet she wanted to see those eyes looking at her the way they had once.

We once had a guy in our team who always started at one out of some religious reason.

I've had that said to me a million times if I have once.

Well, all right, maybe they had once in a long while, but not often.

I once had a girl who kept saying that she knew what my mother must be like.

My father once had to go there on business and took me along.