Sentence examples for have been former from inspiring English sources

Many have been former presidents.

I think they may have been former jurors of mine.

"They must have been former Gieves and Hawkes employees," he said.

Many of the people he interviews turn out to have been former young fanatics like him.

Perhaps this helps explain why so many presidents have been lifelong politicians, while so few have been former business executives.

Probably equal to that veneration have been former students who rue the day they ever crossed paths with him.

The most valuable piece they have is former World Series MVP Cole Hamels.

He said a number of the inmates had been former drug addicts suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

What if the cop had been black and the professor had been former Cambridge resident Henry Kissinger?

"When Justice Rehnquist went on the Court, a minority of the Justices had been former federal judges," Roberts observed.

One name long linked with Watford has been former Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who is without a club.