Example sentences of "once [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | After another six weeks , the cane , which never once had been used , was put away permanently . |
| 2 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 3 | The colour was perfect , the bark wrinkled and grooved , but to the touch it was unmistakably stone , a monument to the savannah that once had been . |
| 4 | There were churches and cathedrals all around this spot which once had been the centre of the of mediaeval town . |
| 5 | The man he once had been . |
| 6 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 7 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 8 | At a conference organized in June 1950 by the Liturgical Institute of Trier , a lecture by Romano Guardini led to a resolution calling upon the German bishops to request Rome to move the long Holy Saturday service from the early morning to the late evening , thus again making it the vigil service it once had been . |
| 9 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 10 | Lecturing was now easier for him than it once had been — he had , after all , accumulated a great deal of experience — but the readings of his own poetry frequently left him exhausted . |
| 11 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 12 | Once had been enough , a warning forever , and now she was on her own . |
| 13 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 14 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 15 | It was n't Dana 's fault if Roman preferred her to her twin ; he had wanted Claudia , but once had been enough . |
| 16 | I wish to God once had been enough . |
| 17 | He had begun to suspect that , despite his many years of unstinting service to the Party in both Warwickshire and Westminster , he was not as loved as he once had been . |
| 18 | The risk of denying all of these at once had been painfully clear in 833 . |
| 19 | The ceiling had been removed and we were looking up at where the roof of the house once had been . |
| 20 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 21 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 22 | ‘ Cab , sir ? ’ barked barbecued Bill the driver , raising the charred relic of what once had been his cap . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , somehow Rogers and Thomas got the message across that TB was hardly the scourge it once had been and there was really no reason not to laugh at those who were generally prepared to laugh at themselves , although there were serious moments too . |