Example sentences of "once [been] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the room he saw a young man who had once been his friend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After that he would attend upon Jeffrey Archer , who had once been his deputy chairman . |
| 4 | He was eager to put the past in order , and to make his peace with those who had once been his contemporaries . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |