Example sentences of "and had already " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 2 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 3 | Charles has had years of practice and had already encountered all the customs and forms of national dress that amuse Diana so much . |
| 4 | The Health Secretary had accepted recommendations addressed to his department , and had already introduced a review of the health service 's response to major incidents . |
| 5 | Mr Meacher in turn claimed that this was only notional and had already been clawed back . |
| 6 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 7 | He was beginning to find the sex interesting , and had already started to wonder whether he should try to make her position permanent . |
| 8 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 9 | Victoria seemed to bypass teenage awkwardness , and had already an instinctive ease of manner which reassured the boys . |
| 10 | Court Treatt had long dreamed of making the hitherto unattempted journey by car from the Cape to Cairo , and had already surveyed the route by air . |
| 11 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 12 | By the age of 12 , she was only the size of an eight-year-old and had already undergone two operations to straighten her legs . |
| 13 | At the time of writing , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ was enjoying its sixth consecutive week in the US Top 10 and had already generated in excess of two million sales worldwide . |
| 14 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 15 | By the time Marianne 's first marriage was breaking up , she had a three-year-old son and had already met Brian , her second husband . |
| 16 | The four named officers had been arrested at the same time as Beattie and had already appeared before ‘ Diplock ’ tribunals and been released . |
| 17 | There was subdued talk , of the kind that follows a memorial service and had already followed Paul 's actual funeral some weeks before . |
| 18 | B.R. Pearn had been appointed Information Officer , and had already produced a booklet for the Indian Army HQ , compiled with the help of experienced District and Forest Officers , with valuable advice on how to live in the jungle . |
| 19 | It was the brainchild of Eric Kaye who lives in the area and had already published a history of the airfield . |
| 20 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ I have my own little semi and had already saved enough for my retirement . |
| 22 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 23 | He had found his tent and had already moved w the broch island . |
| 24 | He began to explore the possibility of borrowing from East Berlin five years ago and had already secured an agreement from the authorities in charge of Potsdam , and from the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in West Berlin which normally never lends . |
| 25 | A couple of years younger , Baker looked older , and had already appeared in a film . |
| 26 | running from care : over half the 179 youngsters who had run from care were persistent absconders and had already run away at least five times before going to the safe house . |
| 27 | Marchmont was driven to complain that Anson had been ready enough to promise that he would ‘ do it the first moment it was possible ’ , and had already been strongly urged to promote Lieutenant Home by the Duke of Newcastle , but yet had done nothing . |
| 28 | He was touring Russia and Eastern Europe in search of new material and had already accumulated notes on forty-one prisons and hospitals . |
| 29 | New Shoreham , now sadly decayed , had barely 100 inhabitants , while Bramber , the site of a ruined castle , was minute and had already lost its market . |
| 30 | Many , of course , had brothers or older friends in the Rowdies group and had already had some experience of ‘ hanging around ’ with them in other social arenas away from the terraces . |