Example sentences of "he [be] once [art] " in BNC.

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1	Like Mr Gorbachev , he was once a party apparatchik .
2	The burly barman , it might be he was once a footballer : he booted the man up and down and up and down and out into the street .
3	FOOTBALL ace Franz Beckenbauer has gone potty — he thinks he was once a flower .
4	He was once a director of the company which owned this coffee estate , and he seems to have squatter 's rights here for life .
5	More than in previous works , his still-traceable marxism ( he was once a Trotskyite ) keeps him one step away from ‘ gee-whiz ’ futurology .
6	[ On board seems quite appropriate as he was once a steward on the QE11 ! ] .
7	He was once a Hunt Saboteur and still has a dent in his buttocks to prove it .
8	He was once a social security Minister and he does himself no credit by forgetting that there are two sides to every argument .
9	though he was once a soldier ,
10	Councillor Stevenson is well placed to comment on the carpet as he was once a weaver at Stoddard .
11	Team manager for the Chapman team is dad Steve … he was once a driver himself … used to race against a lad called Mansell …
12	Would n't want to remember when he was once a friend , I suppose .
13	Nothing is known of Freeth 's education or his early years , although it seems that he was once an itinerant street ballad-singer .
14	The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate .
15	One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity .
16	Throwing the conservationist traditions founded in the Roosevelt-Pinchot era out the window , Reagan ( and who can believe he was once the environmentally aware governor of California ? ) has declared war on environmentalists in his crusade to open up America 's natural resources to the developers .

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