Example sentences of "have once been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd once been to the Easter Fete . |
| 2 | Alix 's godmother , also named Alix , had once been to a ball in Vienna . |
| 3 | Not that she thought Matey , or Dr Neil , would come poking around her room , but she was changing rapidly from the trusting and innocent girl she had once been to someone more cautious — she , Sally-Anne , more cautious ! |
| 4 | Robertson had once been to Stirling Polytechnic . |
| 5 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 6 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 7 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 8 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 9 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 10 | The rug on the floor had once been in his father 's study . |
| 11 | The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |