Example sentences of "had once be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What Amanda was wearing underneath had once been a matter of passionate interest to Don . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It had once been the great hall of the castle , and is among the fairest buildings of the twelfth century which Britain possesses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There had once been a row at Goodwood when the scrutineers rejected Colin 's car because it did n't have a fireproof bulkhead . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Increasingly publicans took over the task of providing facilities for sports which had once been enjoyed on the streets or on common land . |
| 12 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 13 | The walk led to some greenhouses and what had once been a stable , now converted into a surgery . |
| 14 | Furthermore , many early churches were built on pagan sites , purified with holy water , where trees and stones had once been worshipped . |
| 15 | Charles had once been able to play quite proficiently , but was very out of practice . |
| 16 | The solidarity and sense of community that had once been Ealing 's strength now began to work against it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By glimpses I learnt with awe and astonishment that he had once been of my age . |
| 20 | He was a spare aquiline man , who had once been court sculptor ( and perhaps unofficial jester ! ) to a mythical-sounding Ring Zog . |
| 21 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The house , centrepiece of a great estate , had once been the home of a Maharajah . |
| 25 | Who in their right mind would avoid a road or a railway track simply because it had once been the scene of an accident ? |
| 26 | Standing in a corner of the half-landing was an old mirror with chipped edges : a tall narrow sheet of glass that had once been pinned to the inside of a wardrobe door . |
| 27 | She was sitting apart from those who had once been her friends , her eyes downcast and her cheeks blazing . |
| 28 | Kilfedder and Molyneaux had once been close but Kilfedder 's desertion of the OUP had divided them . |
| 29 | In Portadown and Cookstown , RUC officers were driven out of their homes in areas which had once been safe because they were loyalist . |
| 30 | Like Ari , she had no difficulty accepting the idea Tammuz had once been Ewan , but there was no way she could really feel this odd , crazed man was the one she 'd loved before . |