Example sentences of "it had already " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone else said it had already seized up . |
| 2 | Like the ACAS report , the Scarman report sank without a trace but it had already fulfilled its function that of sapping the strength and momentum of the struggle . |
| 3 | It had already been shown by Lewis to Dent , publisher of Dymer , who rejected it . |
| 4 | It had already been love at first hearing . |
| 5 | He could hardly limp across the room and offer her a plastic spoon , especially as it had already been used . |
| 6 | Not least , the CIA was induced to help before it realized that the man with whom it would be dealing was one it had already discarded . |
| 7 | Taken by Mr Browning to view it — though since it had already been rented her approval was of no importance — she was at once charmed . |
| 8 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 9 | In fact , though the statue was exhibited as the property of the Marquess of Tavistock and the Bedford Estate Trustees , it had already been sold to a Cayman Island company , Fine Art Investment and Display Limited . |
| 10 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 11 | It had already been possible to offset some of the costs of industrial building , but this incentive was now extended to commercial projects in the zones . |
| 12 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 13 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 14 | Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers . |
| 15 | It had already happened ! |
| 16 | I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer . |
| 17 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 18 | After 1968 , genuine approval of his anti-Soviet stance gave a boost to the incipient cult and by 1974 it had already reached its high-point , from which it never subsided , but simply spread to a suffocating extent into all areas of public life . |
| 19 | Not only would The Silmarillion have to achieve the ‘ depth ’ it had already been used to create , it would have to do so without contradicting , and while if possible reinforcing , all the millions of details Tolkien had handed over to his readership already . |
| 20 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 21 | The AWB claimed in 1990 that it had already trained 12,000 men . |
| 22 | It had already received three written warnings ( one for fighting , one for being under the influence of drugs while in charge of a wood-turning lathe , and one for lateness ) and either had to leave or face the sack . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had already shared dinner and such a tough mouse deserved all the nourishment it could get . |
| 25 | It had already produced great wars and upheavals ; even greater ones were to come . |
| 26 | That there were many factors to be considered is shown by the fact that in 1880 the depression was only just beginning to be felt by industry , while it had already hit agriculture badly . |
| 27 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 28 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 29 | At the time of its merger with Powick , in the closing stages of the rundown of the latter hospital , the fusing of specialisms was seen to offer many advantages , but by this time it had already been decided to resettle residents in permanent community hostels . |
| 30 | The CHC went on to point out that it had already carried out its own feasibility study on the potential for a psychiatric hospital closure in Redbridge and Waltham Forest . |