Example sentences of "have once be a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
2 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
3 | He was a tall man — not quite as tall as Tom Russell , but still over six feet — with slightly thinning hair that had once been a dark brown but was now streaked with grey . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The child watched her now stand up in her stockinged feet on what had once been a fine Persian rug but was now worn in parts to its back , and unpin her hat . |