Example sentences of "who [vb past] once been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a spare aquiline man , who had once been court sculptor ( and perhaps unofficial jester ! ) to a mythical-sounding Ring Zog . |
| 2 | Theda knew an instant of blinding , devastating hatred of the red-headed woman who had once been Benedict 's love . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In one of the firing ranges attached to the foundries Brother Artisans — who had once been hive-dwellers , too , before their transfiguration — introduced the new Necromundans to military bolters , flamers , plasma guns , melta guns , laser weapons . |
| 5 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 6 | Angela , Lady Macleod , who had once been Angela Deverill and whom he had thought that he had loved more than life itself , picked up her parasol , an object as lovely and useless as she was . |