Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have once been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 2 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 3 | All her joy drained away like water spilled on sand as instead of Penry Vaughan 's tall , broad-shouldered figure she came face to face with the woman who 'd once been his wife . |
| 4 | In the 1920s the enemy was Labour and the aim was to encourage the desertion of the middle and lower middle classes and the ‘ black-coated ’ workers who had once been the foot-soldiers of Liberalism . |
| 5 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 6 | He was a spare aquiline man , who had once been court sculptor ( and perhaps unofficial jester ! ) to a mythical-sounding Ring Zog . |
| 7 | She was sitting apart from those who had once been her friends , her eyes downcast and her cheeks blazing . |
| 8 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Prejean , who had once been diagnosed as brain damaged and mentally retarded , said shortly before his execution : ‘ I do n't ask to get out of prison . |
| 11 | Saad Rashid was a shrewd man , good with figures , but it did not take his shrewdness to know that a sentence of death would have been passed upon him by those who had once been his colleagues in Baghdad . |
| 12 | He would fly that night to Damascus with his wife who had once been a dancer and with his children whom he loved . |
| 13 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |
| 14 | And with Austen Chamberlain there was always the old difficulty of a stiff man who had once been so much his senior . |
| 15 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |
| 16 | He was eager to put the past in order , and to make his peace with those who had once been his contemporaries . |
| 17 | In the dream she lifted her right hand and stretched out her arm , the tiny pistol almost lost in the palm of her hand , pointed it at the man who had once been her lover — and shot him dead . |
| 18 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was a small , dark woman who had once been petite . |
| 21 | None of them had ever had one , except for his MP uncle , who had once been a journalist . |
| 22 | She was a scrawny flabby woman who had once been stout . |
| 23 | Adesangé , god of the volcano , was the lord of Sycorax 's rites , and Ariel , even in her mutism , was startled by the fervour of the woman who had once been so sceptical of others ' belief in her powers , who used to insist that all mysteries lay in the processes of nature and need only be observed and analysed and understood . |
| 24 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 25 | He was reduced to a short old man who had once been the great painter Marius Durance . |
| 26 | In fact , he was a Beirut used-car dealer who had once been a member of the Syrian-backed Amal militia headed by Nabi Berri , a Shiite Muslim cabinet minister in the Lebanese government ( and a less well-known businessman in Detroit , Michigan ) . |
| 27 | He knew the pathologist , a woman doctor who had once been young but found her work was ageing her fast . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Theda knew an instant of blinding , devastating hatred of the red-headed woman who had once been Benedict 's love . |
| 30 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |