Example sentences of "[Wh det] have once [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Ron and I went down to Broadlands , the country house on the Test at Romsey which had once belonged to Lord Palmerston and was later left to Edwina Mountbatten , the admiral 's wife . |
| 2 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 3 | They were fascinated by the arrivals : Peter Fonda turned up in a huge sheepskin coat and carrying an ivory-handled .44–40 , which had once belonged to Tom Mix . |
| 4 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 5 | The charter granted Calvert palatinate powers over a domain of almost seven million acres from what had once belonged to Virginia . |