Example sentences of "that [pron] have already [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 2 | But he could equally well have said one is enthusiasm and the other is cynicism , one is facility and the other is aridity , one is gregariousness and the other is solitude , one is the belief that no one has ever done anything of value before and the other is the belief that everything has already been done , one is spontaneity and the other is cerebration , one is joy and the other is despair , one is heart and the other is mind , one is the garret and the other is the penthouse , one is sincerity and the other is irony , one is Jung and the other is Freud , one is Rimbaud and the other is Mallarmé , one is wine and the other is coffee , one is rags and the other is riches , one is women and the other is celibacy , one is health and the other is disease , one is meat and the other is vegetables , one is life and the other is death , one is everything in upper case and the other is everything in lower case , one is everything in roman and the other is everything in italics . |
| 3 | Some demanded them at gunpoint , but we had hidden ours and my parents explained in German that they had already been taken . |
| 4 | The crew , themselves , felt that they had already been changed by the experience and some were a little anxious about the future . |
| 5 | An army spokesman pointed out to journalists that the men were being held under anti-terrorist legislation and added that they had already been interrogated and had been ‘ singing like birds ’ , a phrase from the criminal underworld implying that they had confessed to crimes . |
| 6 | When they are dried out this generally indicates that they have already been eaten twice . |
| 7 | When it is pointed out to them that they have already been invited to say what they like , they become rather sheepish . |
| 8 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 9 | The data will be retrieved from the database , assuming that it has already been collected and stored . |
| 10 | This bridge ( Cowley Bridge ) , built by James Green , the county surveyor , in 1813–14 , is so fine in design that it has already been scheduled and protected as an ancient monument . |
| 11 | Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted . |
| 12 | The case went before the Bishop three times when John Heryng pleaded that he had already been accounted before auditors appointed by the Bishop and that the account was in possession of John Ie Baker , now churchwarden . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 14 | This means that the essential choices are left open ; above all , it means that what has already been done is not yet irrevocable . |