Example sentences of "once been a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 2 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 3 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 4 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |
| 5 | The passage had obviously once been a high ceilinged corridor . |