Example sentences of "already [be] [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Hendaye , Franco stated personally what had already been said in his letters and through his ministers and officials : Spain was committed to helping the Axis , but could only do so when she was materially equipped for war and assured of her " rightful " territorial claims in North Africa . |
| 2 | His view of love has already been revealed in his song to Helen ; and he seems to enjoy match-making Troilus and Cressida for subversive reasons of his own . |
| 3 | Ferrasse , rightly , explained that the former coach has already been punished for his misdemeanour , and he then threatened to resign from the Board unless the Dubroca issue was allowed to rest . |
| 4 | Murray Pugh was described by his best friend as universally popular , both with fellow students and with the children he taught.A man has already been charged with his murder . |
| 5 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 6 | Mention has already been made of his influence on the Slovene literary movement . |
| 7 | This has already been illustrated from his dealings with Osbern , but never before when he himself was responsible for everything that happened . |
| 8 | Some of the manuscript diaries had already been destroyed by his widow , and the bulk of the remainder were also destroyed in obscure circumstances by his niece , into whose hands they had passed , in the 1950s . |
| 9 | When , after notable delays , the first Free French representative , Jean Sainteny , arrived in Hanoi from Kunming he had apparently already been informed by his travelling companion , Major Archimedes Patti of the American OSS , that as the Potsdam agreement made no mention of French sovereignty over Vietnam the French therefore had no right to intervene in affairs which were no longer their concern . |
| 10 | Iain Banks is a thoroughly Scottish writer , and The Crow Road has already been identified as his ‘ crisis ’ novel : a notable softening of the baroque violence and elaboration of the earlier books and the sideline science fiction ( where Banks hides under the minimal false moustache and wig of a middle initial ) . |
| 11 | It was no defence to say the transfers had already been signed by his brother Kevin , said Mr Justice Chadwick . |
| 12 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 13 | Privately , Conservative MPs predict that he will be moved in the first reshuffle after the Budget and bets are already being placed on his successor . |
| 14 | Toby , surprisingly , had been put in his own small room and I guessed that the power of the Press was already being wielded in his favour . |