Example sentences of "[vb past] already [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 2 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 3 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
| 4 | Most towns and villages in the rest of the county had already turned to the association game by the turn of the century , but before 1907 their enthusiasm centred around their local teams . |
| 5 | But Faye had already turned to the thick , creamy frontispiece to check for herself before leafing through the rest of the volume . |
| 6 | The crowds who gathered round the palace were respectable citizens cheering a king who had already conceded to the army and to provincial garrisons : they were not an organized pressure group which had forced the crown to become liberal by accepting the constitution of 1812 , appointing a liberal municipality , and a Junta to supervise the establishment of the constitution . |
| 7 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 8 | Concern for the plant 's impact on the environment had already led to a cut in production earlier in the year to the minimum necessary to keep the plant 's systems in operation . |
| 9 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 10 | There was a prospect ahead of " centuries of barbarism " which , in an interview the year before , he had already related to the coming dominance of technology . |
| 11 | Shelley had already gone to the patient and was holding the swollen ankle . |
| 12 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 13 | The conclusion of an alliance with France in 1894 had already contributed to the favourable publicity which Russian securities received in the West . |
| 14 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 15 | Bits of burning paper had already fallen to the wooded floor . |
| 16 | Peter Mayle , the sophisticated advertising executive , you will recall , had already emigrated to the South of France without bothering to learn the language , research the climate or check the plumbing . |
| 17 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 18 | The Sunday Times had already agreed to a ‘ cease-fire ’ . |
| 19 | In practice , the professional bodies concerned , e.g. the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , had already agreed to a limit of 24 weeks and in 1990 a Bill was passed to reduce the legal limit to 24 weeks . |
| 20 | If the sectoral approach and spillover were to achieve any great potential , they could only do so on a more limited front — that is , by the six states which had already agreed to the supranational principle by forming the ECSC . |
| 21 | for help and in fact , I had already spoken to the Justice and Peace Group , so I do n't really know where the muddle had come , but he said he got a , a list from British Section and Bishop 's Stortford has n't got any representative at all , which is extraordinary , so I do n't whether Rose has little note and told Mr . |
| 22 | The National Feder-ation of Professional Workers had already objected to the proposed constitutional reforms of the BUF and what they saw as plans for the suppression of Parliament , the imprisonment of opponents , and the establishment of a private army . |
| 23 | One of the leading ‘ Democracy Wall ’ activists , Wei Jingsheng , had already responded to the hardening attitude of Deng and his supporters , during late March . |
| 24 | Randolph Fields had already recruited to the nascent operation two former Laker executives , Roy Gardner , who later became Virgin Atlantic 's chief executive , and David Tait , who was appointed head of the American operation . |
| 25 | Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up . |
| 26 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 27 | In Stein 's day the jade searchers of Chinese Turkestan had already taken to a kind of superficial mining , even if this amounted to no more than burrowing through overlying deposits to search the cobble bed down to depths of up to some twenty feet . |
| 28 | By early 1981 Dr Salama had already taken to the new station over half the NTV Jos staff , chiefly men and women he had originally recruited . |
| 29 | Glancing over her shoulder , Melissa saw that the entrance had already shrunk to a slit . |
| 30 | Cards and flowers had already come to the stage door , and Bernie was making mocking remarks at every opportunity . |