Example sentences of "[vb past] already [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England .
2 But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East .
3 Perhaps he 'd already settled down under his blanket when Berowne arrived .
4 Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British .
5 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 .
6 As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors .
7 She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business .
8 ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille .
9 But Americans had already moved on to another massive and distinctively North American style , the station as office block .
10 But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road .
11 Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way .
12 He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays .
16 Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows .
17 Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself .
18 ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English .
19 The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time .
20 He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful .
21 Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín .
22 Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room .
23 Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares .
24 Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again .
25 She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing .
26 Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks .
27 But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control .
28 During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause .
29 Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been .
30 ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . )
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