Example sentences of "already [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 23 she 'd already travelled alone in Europe . |
| 2 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 3 | WITH millions already shaping up for their New Year diet , doctors have warned against some of Britain 's most popular weight-loss plans . |
| 4 | But that was three weeks ago , as the Substitute Prosecutor has already pointed out to you . |
| 5 | So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you . |
| 6 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 7 | Illness is , as already pointed out in this section , more amenable to definition and measurement than either pain or health . |
| 8 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 9 | Lastly she went to hang her towel and arrange her toiletries in the bathroom , only to find several thick towels of varying sizes already hanging there for her use , and an array of soaps , lotions and hygiene products that made her own cheaply bought things seem scarcely worthy of being unpacked . |
| 10 | So while the type of tv reporting that so upsets Nicholas Soames may add to a sense of doubt already nagging away in many British minds , when the opinion pollster calls it is reduced to the level of painful anecdote . |
| 11 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 12 | One of the magnets in the Fishpen we had for review was already broken presumably in the post . |
| 13 | Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British . |
| 14 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 15 | The man on the moped was already speeding away in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | The next time they came Allen was already hidden up in a beech-tree above where they stood and Marian was far off wandering among her swine looking for flowers . |
| 17 | You already stalk around like a haughty prince , ’ she teased . |
| 18 | Nina had already commented favourably on it , throwing pointed looks at both the Health and Beauty desk and the disordered alcove from which Fashion operated . |
| 19 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 20 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |
| 21 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 22 | For instance , interest rates are beginning to fall in Germany , they have already fallen substantially in the UK and are very low in the US . |
| 23 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 24 | Noise was already filtering through from the lounge and the veranda , where the house guests had gathered . |
| 25 | But Palatine is already competing effectively against much larger operators , including Anglo-Welsh itself ! |
| 26 | Skins and skeletons of mammals , from the giant kangaroo to the tiny kangaroo rat , were hauled on board the groaning bullock carts to join the piles of feathered carcases already stacked away as part of Gould 's mammoth collection . |
| 27 | EC members are already reacting informally to the MacSharry plan . |
| 28 | Iranians had more respect for people with graying locks ; North , already tipped off by Ghorbanifar , had put more white in his ; so Hakim and Nir went back to the shop and had Nir 's hair sprayed , Hakim all the while keeping his identity firmly under his wig . |
| 29 | News of this discovery had travelled quickly to the wives of the seven other fishermen , and Elisabeth saw that they were already grouped together on the shore . |
| 30 | It was decided at the Brdo kod Kranja meeting to hold by the end of May a separate referendum in each republic except Slovenia , which had already voted overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] . |