Example sentences of "who had once [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nomes who had once flown in the Ship had obviously grown lots of plants that way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This Englishman , who had once served in the British Army , had steamed that letter open with all the careful deliberation of an espionage agent . |
| 4 | One day the family returned who had once lived in the cottage occupied now by Lucie , Izzie and Gabriel . |
| 5 | 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 . |