Example sentences of "[vb past] already [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 2 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 3 | Well they 'd already been to the pantomime at your school so you 'll have to wait till next year now . |
| 4 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 5 | An example is the 1975 pay award in BR , which had already been through the RSNT when the Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened to press management to resume negotiations and make a higher offer ( see ch. 9 ) . |
| 6 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 7 | His first job was to start his teams to plough : he had already been on the field the day before to mark out the stetches . |
| 8 | Should I tell her here and now that Ewen Mackay had already been to the cottage ? |
| 9 | I had already been to the dinner party . |
| 10 | ‘ I guess it was a big gamble to turn my back on Neighbours but I felt I had already been in the show too long , ’ says Kristian , who will still be seen in the soap in Britain for another 12 months . |
| 11 | The " ceremonious stomachs " of Russian ambassadors " whose Nation stands so much on Ceremony " were the subject of comment in England in the early years of the century , as they had already been in the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 12 | The shop and post office at Middleton Tyas , near Richmond , had already been in the King family for well over 80 years then . |