Example sentences of "once [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he returns to the town , he is arrested , but is set free by Ferdinand , an African promoted from the bush whose patron he has once been . |
| 2 | Maybe there will one day be a novel from Amis which portrays the Patrick Standish of the Eighties — more baleful , no doubt , on certain subjects , nicer to his cat , surrounded by the monuments of the New Right and by the debris of the swinging past to which he had once been a contributor . |
| 3 | What Amanda was wearing underneath had once been a matter of passionate interest to Don . |
| 4 | She had heard rhyming slang , she knew what four by twos meant , and she 'd once been asked if she could speak with a Jewish accent . |
| 5 | ‘ That Christmas ’ ( not that it matters ) was Christmas 1911 , which Pound spent as a guest of Maurice Hewlett 's at the Old Rectory , Broad Chalke , Salisbury — a house which had once been a nunnery , dating back to 1487 . |
| 6 | In the case of an eighth-century Pre-Khmer bronze figure of a Bodhisattva , estimated at £40,000-£60,000 , the body had been tested and proved ancient but it was clear that the head had once been broken off and re-attached . |
| 7 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 8 | It had once been the great hall of the castle , and is among the fairest buildings of the twelfth century which Britain possesses . |
| 9 | In the 1920s the enemy was Labour and the aim was to encourage the desertion of the middle and lower middle classes and the ‘ black-coated ’ workers who had once been the foot-soldiers of Liberalism . |
| 10 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 11 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
| 12 | There had once been a row at Goodwood when the scrutineers rejected Colin 's car because it did n't have a fireproof bulkhead . |
| 13 | Most working men claimed to know someone who had once been given a trial or had been ‘ on the books ’ of a club for a spell . |
| 14 | Increasingly publicans took over the task of providing facilities for sports which had once been enjoyed on the streets or on common land . |
| 15 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 16 | The walk led to some greenhouses and what had once been a stable , now converted into a surgery . |
| 17 | Furthermore , many early churches were built on pagan sites , purified with holy water , where trees and stones had once been worshipped . |
| 18 | Charles had once been able to play quite proficiently , but was very out of practice . |
| 19 | The solidarity and sense of community that had once been Ealing 's strength now began to work against it . |
| 20 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 21 | He ended up by paying for most of the house himself and what had once been a modest little farmhouse jumped up several rungs of the architectural and social ladder . |
| 22 | According to family tradition , Mr Thomas ( 1854–1920 ) had once been a pupil-teacher in his home town of Tredegar , a flourishing iron and coal community . |
| 23 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 24 | King 's 32 was the only other score in double figures , while Greenidge 's 134 out of 211 represented 63.5 per cent of his team 's total , a proportion that has only once been exceeded in all Tests . |
| 25 | He was a spare aquiline man , who had once been court sculptor ( and perhaps unofficial jester ! ) to a mythical-sounding Ring Zog . |
| 26 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 27 | Soon after my mother had died , I had noticed a gap in the familiar contours of the furniture in the room leading out of the sitting-room — it was where the shop had once been , entered then via the yard gate and a large open porch . |
| 28 | As Mungo hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets against the dank evening mist , Emily explained that this had once been a riding school . |
| 29 | The house , centrepiece of a great estate , had once been the home of a Maharajah . |
| 30 | Who in their right mind would avoid a road or a railway track simply because it had once been the scene of an accident ? |