Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have once [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 2 | Was this the man , he straddled the boy , who had once run from a girl ? |
| 3 | The nomes who had once flown in the Ship had obviously grown lots of plants that way . |
| 4 | These were the Azems who had once served in the French army or even the French air force but who later turned against their French masters — and their minority supporters in Syria — and died fighting them . |
| 5 | This Englishman , who had once served in the British Army , had steamed that letter open with all the careful deliberation of an espionage agent . |
| 6 | One day the family returned who had once lived in the cottage occupied now by Lucie , Izzie and Gabriel . |
| 7 | It was he , too , who had once dealt with a particularly troublesome stoat by leading it down among the pheasant coops and so ( at the risk of his own life ) on to a keeper 's gun . |
| 8 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 9 | According to reports , Pan Am filed the suit on the basis of a report commissioned from an Israeli intelligence expert known as " Avner " , based in New York , who had once worked for Mossad . |
| 10 | There were some dancers from Morocco in two of the first-floor rooms and a lady on the top floor who had once sung in an opera-house in Paris , France . |
| 11 | The news that the Collector had been seen doing his own laundry caused a mild sensation at first and was interpreted as the long-awaited collapse , particularly by those members of the garrison who had once belonged to the " bolting " party . |
| 12 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |