Example sentences of "have already [verb] [adv prt] their " in BNC.
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1 | The problem was that in reality it was not so much the Danes who had to decide — they had already made up their minds — as the remainder of the EEC partners who had to face the consequences of the Danish decision . |
2 | He said the survey also showed that people believed ‘ the experts ’ had already made up their minds and were not interested in others ' views . |
3 | A spokeswoman for Barclays Bank stressed that British banks had already cut back their lending in response to earlier warnings . |
4 | For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant . |
5 | To tradition and instinct , de Castelnau could add personal reasons for wanting to hit hard at the enemy ; three of his sons had already laid down their lives for France . |
6 | In the meantime , the Hercules of RAF Lyneham have already stepped up their workload to the war zone . |
7 | Apparently they have already made up their minds , to separate one of the odder , although at times stimulating , hybrids of the museum world : the Tate as the gallery of British art and the Tate as the gallery of modern art , and they may well unveil their decision then . |
8 | Even so , prices are not expected to rise and companies such as John Laing , Barratt and Wimpey have already written down their housing land bank values by up to 20 per cent . |
9 | A traveller who has come from a nearby town , where the Romans have already given out their orders ( low to equal status ) . |
10 | Gloucestershire , Oxfordshire , Wiltshire and Hereford and Worcester have already brought in their own bans . |
11 | Countries in favour of whaling , such as Japan , the Faroe Islands and Norway have already set up their own whaling organisation . |
12 | But strawberries of any sort , served with cream are one of the great delights of summer and I see that in Cheshire the fruit farms have already put out their ‘ Pick Your Own ’ notices . |
13 | EC foreign ministers , meeting today , have already drawn up their battle-lines over the much-vexed topic of safeguarding European culture on television . |