Example sentences of "have 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 | ‘ 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 … |
| 3 | The pond has once been treated for White Spot , which occurred on six newly-purchased fish , but no other chemicals have been necessary . |
| 4 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 7 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 8 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 9 | She 'd once been to the Easter Fete . |
| 10 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 11 | A man who 'd once been engaged to her sister . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You see , he 'd once been a costermonger himself , but that was before he married Miss Roach , the baker 's daughter . |
| 14 | The present name of Colonna del Verziere is new , the column having once been the column of the cross ' — after the statue of Christ holding an iron cross was added in the seventeenth-century — or ‘ of San Matroniano ’ . |
| 15 | The independent republic of Honduras had been created a year previously , in 1838 , having once been part of Spanish America ; its fertile coastal plains surround a mountainous interior , rich in forests , and it just manages to have a 40-mile strip of southern coastline on the Pacific to complement its much longer Caribbean seaboard . |
| 16 | First , instead of being content to rest his case on the distinction between commonsense and scientific language , he insisted that certainties in science , having once been established , should be regarded as aids in biblical exegesis . |
| 17 | Having once been the protected member of the family , it was now upon him that responsibilities began to fall . |
| 18 | It has been held under an equivalent section in England that , an adjournment having once been allowed on the ground that some requirement was not complied with , the justices had no power to adjourn a second time because another irregularity had occurred : R. v. Poole JJ. [ 1951 ] 2 T.L.R. 261 . |
| 19 | In a letter to his son of 1778 Sulivan described himself as having once been ‘ wild , dissipated and favorite with both sexes ’ . |
| 20 | This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence . |
| 21 | For example , Miss Cunnington cites a small house at Pamphill , Dorset , which may have once been a fourteenth-century hunting lodge . |
| 22 | All the lanes must have once been extremely important , but nothing on the map nor indeed on the ground suggests this . |
| 23 | We came into what must have once been a street . |
| 24 | She must have once been a child of the nursery school . |
| 25 | The swollen monstrosity behind the wheel shrouded in the smoke and steam of its own cooling was surely much too large to have once been human . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What Amanda was wearing underneath had once been a matter of passionate interest to Don . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |