Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] already [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedgewood sets out to find it and both parties discover that someone has already arrived on the Moon before them … |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 3 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 4 | I said as how I 'd see you through the move and I 've already stayed on longer , just to help out , like . ’ |
| 5 | O o o o order , the honourable gentleman will recall that er in an earlier point of order I 've already ruled on that matter . |
| 6 | This is the great hall and I could spend easily as long as I 've already spent on on this hall but I wo n't . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've just hired someone to help you with the children , and I 've already laid on a cleaning lady . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I 've already passed on all such things . ’ |
| 9 | Er I I 've already reported on the maternity leave cover provisions . |
| 10 | I have already commented on the book 's failure to mention the work of Lehrl , from West Germany : equally missing is the outstanding work of Volkmar Weiss and the Mehlhorns in East Germany , of A. Firkowska and others in Poland , of N. G. Lipovecheja and his colleagues in the USSR , and many others . |
| 11 | At its most obvious this refers to the placement of the school in the natural or man-made environment and I have already commented on the vast variations which exist , from town to country ; seashore to savannah , forest or mountain . |
| 12 | I have already commented on the fertility of the plot , and the weeds loved it . |
| 13 | I have already commented on the suggestion , made by both conservative Christians and Christian feminists , that the Spirit should be seen as specifically female . |
| 14 | I have already commented on this point . |
| 15 | I have already remarked on the different situation thirty years ago , when criticism still occupied a traditional place as part of public discourse , and the first books of a distinguished generation of British critics — Bayley , Davie , Hoggart , Kermode , Wain , Williams — were reviewed in the daily and weekly press . |
| 16 | I have already remarked on the poem 's opening where Mendel and Rendel Harris combine to reincarnate past voices , plant breeding and anthropology shedding a new light on the dead — from the Chaucer of the ‘ Prologue ’ to James Thomson and the Fitzgerald whose stanza More had quoted when writing about the growth of trees and flowers in an essay of ‘ Saint Augustine ’ : . |
| 17 | I have already remarked on the phrase ’ military conflict ’ . |
| 18 | González on March 7 authorized price rises for public-sector companies , including an increase in petrol prices of 124 per cent in water charges of 58 per cent retroactively to November 1989 , even though the state-run water company had already raised its prices by 87 per cent on Feb. 8 and in telephone charges , which had already risen on Feb. 8 by 112 per cent , of a further 300 per cent . |
| 19 | I mean you , you 're not gon na go out and spend eighty quid on groceries that you 've already had on Friday just cos the shop 's open on Sunday are you ? |
| 20 | By doing this , you will enable us to claim back the tax you 've already paid on your gift . |
| 21 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 22 | She had already noticed on the streets of Florence how pretty the girls were — and how well dressed — and she made up her mind to look just as good . |
| 23 | Sharpe had taken a royal fortune off the battlefield , and it was that fortune which Jane had stolen from him , and much of which she had already spent on a London house and on silks and on furniture and on jewels and on Lord John 's debts , and on silverware and gold plate and Chinese wallpaper and on lapdogs and satin and on the cabriolet in which Lord John now rode towards the cavalry and battle . |
| 24 | Brady met on Jan. 21 with the German Finance Minister Theo Waigel ( who declined afterwards to state a figure for the German contribution ) and with the Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ( who had already stated on Jan. 18 that Japan would contribute a " substantial sum " to be decided " as soon as possible " ) . |
| 25 | At times Kylie , who had already appeared on television by then , would talk of her hopes for fame . |
| 26 | Nurses who have already worked on medical wards will be familiar with many of these tests . |
| 27 | There is , though , a danger of doing an experiment when you have already decided on the result you are looking for . |
| 28 | In your SAS practice you have already concentrated on consonants . |
| 29 | the only erm problem I had I think with the basic er terms as outlined in this document are the fact that I 'm going to be wor erm intending to work for fif at least fifty of the fifty two weeks in the year at it when of course erm certainly as we 'd already agreed on my erm business plan within the summer month from the the end of July until the beginning of September |
| 30 | Well the question as far as inset er is concerned , we 've we 've already touched on this morning and I believe it was discussed yesterday . |