Example sentences of "had already [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 1660s , however , Louis XIV began to press very intransigently pretensions of this kind which had already been raised unsuccessfully by Cardinal Richelieu more than a generation earlier . |
| 2 | Prices had already been raised sharply in May but were still well below world levels . |
| 3 | ( b ) Ends : the ends , which had already been framed together in jigs and boarded , were fixed in position . |
| 4 | Most of the grass had already been worn away by cheering trampling spectators but it was still pleasant to sit there when it caught the sun . |
| 5 | To travel to Cologne might well be to find that the battlefront between Germany and the western Allies had already been established just beyond the city . |
| 6 | The fence was erected in order to reinforce a fence which had already been put there by the defendants ' predecessor in title , and it did not in any event enclose the disputed land … |
| 7 | These are the human remains that appear in the picture of the priests , from bodies that had already been torn apart by dogs before they were found in the sand . |
| 8 | It had already been introduced progressively in a number of regions of the Russian Federation and throughout the Ukraine and Armenia in recent weeks . |
| 9 | Bothwell had already been fetched here on a horse litter from Hermitage . |
| 10 | John and Angela had already been used twice in the deception game . |
| 11 | Its silly stick , the other items it had used in its contraption , and the environment tracker , had already been loaded aboard by Fakrid . |