Example sentences of "once been [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Theda knew an instant of blinding , devastating hatred of the red-headed woman who had once been Benedict 's love . |
2 | The solidarity and sense of community that had once been Ealing 's strength now began to work against it . |
3 | The top storey was a one-bedroomed apartment , rooms that had once been servants ' quarters in the tight spaces where the house narrowed towards the roof . |
4 | Her own flat was a little three-roomed affair on the top floor of an old West London house , in what had once been servants ' bedrooms . |
5 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
6 | She had once been Heydrich 's secretary and Schellenberg , to whom she was devoted , had inherited her . |