Example sentences of "[verb] already [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horne has already been on loan at Middlesbrough and Stoke this season . |
| 2 | Lindsay McKeown has already been on asking for her phone number . |
| 3 | She has already been on holiday to Portugal and is looking forward to moving to Cambridge to be near her daughters and grandchildren . |
| 4 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 5 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 6 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 7 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 8 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 9 | His first job was to start his teams to plough : he had already been on the field the day before to mark out the stetches . |
| 10 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 11 | I know has so several of you have already been on a training course so you 'll know the sort of er way in which we work and the way things happen . |
| 12 | By the age of 13 years 24pc have already been on a diet , which is hardly surprising as 38pc do not like the shape |