Example sentences of "once [been] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 2 | She was sitting apart from those who had once been her friends , her eyes downcast and her cheeks blazing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He seemed to inhabit his own world , set apart from them ; and Ruth hardly remembered it had once been her world too . |
| 5 | Once a fortnight on a Sunday afternoon the girls went to tea with Gran Bristow in the little house that had once been their home . |
| 6 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 7 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After that he would attend upon Jeffrey Archer , who had once been his deputy chairman . |
| 10 | He was eager to put the past in order , and to make his peace with those who had once been his contemporaries . |
| 11 | He felt detached , as if he was floating high up above them and the executioners were only playing with the useless bundle of flesh that had once been his body . |
| 12 | 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 . |