Example sentences of "once been [noun] [noun prp] " 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 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 .
4 Dexter remembered she had once been David Parkin 's lover .
5 She was a nice old soul , but she had once been Sister Hope for twenty years , as she never ceased to inform us .
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