Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] once been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 2 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 3 | He was reduced to a short old man who had once been the great painter Marius Durance . |
| 4 | Where he drove , surrounded by cars and bicycles and mopeds and minibuses , there had once been the strained drone of Dakotas pulling gliders into the air for the flights to the bridges and crossroads behind the D-Day beaches of Normandy , and for the flights to the Dutch town of Arnhem . |
| 5 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 6 | It had once been the great hall of the castle , and is among the fairest buildings of the twelfth century which Britain possesses . |
| 7 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 8 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |