Example sentences of "who had once [been] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would fly that night to Damascus with his wife who had once been a dancer and with his children whom he loved . |
| 2 | He spoke to a motor cycle messenger who had once been a roadie for King Crimson . |
| 3 | In fact , he was a Beirut used-car dealer who had once been a member of the Syrian-backed Amal militia headed by Nabi Berri , a Shiite Muslim cabinet minister in the Lebanese government ( and a less well-known businessman in Detroit , Michigan ) . |
| 4 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 5 | None of them had ever had one , except for his MP uncle , who had once been a journalist . |
| 6 | When one prisoner who had been there six months found his wife was about to have a baby , he was taken by the turnkey to the room of a shabby man dressed in a torn and darned rough-weather sea jacket who had once been a surgeon on a passenger ship but was now ‘ a ghastly medical scarecrow ’ , Dr Haggage . |
| 7 | But he benefitted as well from the instruction of the Zoological Society 's draughtsman , William Harvey , who had once been a student of Bewick . |
| 8 | In the 1920s the enemy was Labour and the aim was to encourage the desertion of the middle and lower middle classes and the ‘ black-coated ’ workers who had once been the foot-soldiers of Liberalism . |