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Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have once been " in BNC.

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31	The confrontation between President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and opposition forces , including those who had once been part of his regime as fellow nationalists , continued throughout October .
32	An army officer was killed by an ETA car bomb in Salamanca on Sept. 2 ; an off-duty policeman was shot dead in San Sebastián on Sept. 13 ; and a local policeman in Baracaldo near Bilbao , who had once been imprisoned for providing an ETA unit with accommodation , was killed on Oct. 21 apparently by the premature explosion of a bomb which he was handling .
33	After that he would attend upon Jeffrey Archer , who had once been his deputy chairman .
34	But he benefitted as well from the instruction of the Zoological Society 's draughtsman , William Harvey , who had once been a student of Bewick .
35	And so , black with anger , hot for revenge , the nine hundred invaders , who had once been eleven hundred , marched , sword in hand , towards Scone .
36	He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson .
37	The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield .
38	‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth .