Example sentences of "[noun] who have once [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What plodded through the front door was not the lovable , lazy hound who had once lived there but a grim-faced light bulb serial killer ! |
| 2 | She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all . |
| 3 | From this pale and anaemic-looking girl who had once thought only of turning the heads of young officers , and whom the Collector had considered insipid , he now saw a young woman of inflexible willpower emerging . |
| 4 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |
| 5 | Proud and pleased to be playing opposite Frank Donovan who had once stood in for Hayden Coffin . |
| 6 | He was , of course , the man who had once brought in a cup , painted black on the inside and white on the outside , and , after pointing out its close resemblance to the soul of the average sinner , had jumped up and down on it , foaming at the mouth . |
| 7 | However , she was finding it difficult to stifle the waves of panic which swept through her body at the thought of being in close contact with this man who had once meant so much to her . |