Example sentences of "who have once [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed that from his mind , and his mind filled instead with the face of a lad on a bicycle who 'd once been friendly , and the face of another who did n't mind playing Find the Penny in the hut on the golf-course . |
| 2 | And so , black with anger , hot for revenge , the nine hundred invaders , who had once been eleven hundred , marched , sword in hand , towards Scone . |
| 3 | She was a scrawny flabby woman who had once been stout . |
| 4 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 5 | He knew the pathologist , a woman doctor who had once been young but found her work was ageing her fast . |
| 6 | The typical witch was now the poor neighbour , begging food and drink from people who had once been willing to acknowledge these claims , but did so no longer . |
| 7 | She was a small , dark woman who had once been petite . |