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 .
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