Example sentences of "once been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 2 | It had once been Chris Patten 's task to help Mrs Thatcher as she worked through the night . |
| 3 | The surviving floors , though , were of clay , which might imply that there had once been plank floors above them . |
| 4 | He was a spare aquiline man , who had once been court sculptor ( and perhaps unofficial jester ! ) to a mythical-sounding Ring Zog . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dexter remembered she had once been David Parkin 's lover . |
| 7 | She was a nice old soul , but she had once been Sister Hope for twenty years , as she never ceased to inform us . |
| 8 | Early on the morning of March 4th , the remnants of the 33rd were mopped up and the fragmented stones that had once been Douaumont village fell to the Germans . |