Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] already [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 2 | The French boy looked up sharply at his father , but the familiar expressionless mask had already settled back on his face . |
| 3 | The Home Office took more than six weeks even to respond to the points made , by which time the situation in my constituency had already exploded out of control . |
| 4 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 5 | The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure . |
| 6 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 7 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 8 | But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control . |
| 9 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 10 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |