Example sentences of "had already [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not even know that most of the Scottish host had already cast off everything that weighed it down , and taken to flight , acknowledging the truth of this meeting . |
| 2 | Then we saw that Boniface of Eastbourne had already headed for home , so we turned and started back for our good harbour . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Gundovald , a supposed son of Chlothar , who had been excluded from the succession in 561 , took advantage of the situation to revive his claim to the crown , which he had already asserted with Byzantine support in 582 . |
| 4 | Yeltsin had already asserted on Aug. 13 that , after signing the Union Treaty , the Russian Federation should control its own resources . |
| 5 | All but three had already served under Mr Heath . |
| 6 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 7 | Schaub had already served in Paris and he acted jointly with Sutton from March 1721 until the latter 's departure . |
| 8 | He had already noted in her favour that she did not avoid looking him full in the face as many did ; nor did she flinch or stare when she did . |
| 9 | Early in 1202 secret negotiations had already begun between Otto and Innocent . |
| 10 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 11 | The deposit of a variety of jade amulets for ensuring good fortune and warding off ill-luck among Fu Hao 's grave goods shows that jade had already begun to be directed to individual needs as early as the Shang dynasty , at least for one at the peak of the social system . |
| 12 | This process had already begun with a mass mobilization in a literacy campaign which brought the illiteracy rate down from 50.2 per cent to 12.9 per cent by 1981 ( see page 245 ) . |
| 13 | The revolution had already begun by the end of the seventeenth century and its first candidate was the big , rangy Longhorn . |
| 14 | Therefore the process of the naturalisation of economic relationships had already begun before the transition period was embarked upon . |
| 15 | By the 1790s these shock waves had triggered off another seismic event , sending North America ( where the struggle for national independence had already begun in 1774 ) not only away from the English Crown but on the road to a republican state . |
| 16 | The process had already begun in 1775 when Nathaniel Kent wrote : |
| 17 | ‘ About two-thirds of them had already broken into the European market , particularly France , but were seeking new outlets : the rest were starting from scratch . ’ |
| 18 | The Syrians had already broken through the rampart of sand but as we approached , a Palestinian holding a rifle walked up to our car . |
| 19 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
| 20 | Before we got to the first tee I could see that Jack was already on edge — or more on edge , rather , because a hangover had already eaten into his small reserves of patience and equanimity . |
| 21 | The states which made it up can be classified in several ways , but there is much to be said for distinguishing European states which had already existed in 1815 from those which had come into existence later . |
| 22 | Others ( such as Lass , 1976 ) have preferred to argue that a generally front vowel had already existed in ME . |
| 23 | As a matter of course , nothing had suited Milosevic better than images which had already existed in the past . |
| 24 | ’ He was n't yet thirty when he wrote that ; he had already decided to be old before his time . |
| 25 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 26 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 27 | However , an EC threat to contribute only half of the amount deemed necessary for Bulgaria and Romania ( respectively $800 million and $1,000 million ) did not materialize , as EC Finance Ministers , meeting separately , had already decided on aid to these countries without the precondition of equal contributions from their G-24 partners . |
| 28 | They had already decided upon a name . |
| 29 | And of course the 1964 diary and the Abbotsfield dream had already stirred up Peter 's memories , like sticks stirring the bottom of a muddy pond . |
| 30 | At times Kylie , who had already appeared on television by then , would talk of her hopes for fame . |