Example sentences of "[pron] had already " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 2 | Andy and I had already split up before their thing got going , but even so , it makes you think a bit . ’ |
| 3 | Jenny , as I had already worked out , was a woman of some means and she clearly was n't bothered by the fact she was having to subsidize me . |
| 4 | I had already received details of properties in several regions of France , including the Toulouse area , when I providentially read your article , ‘ At the sign of the Red Rocker ’ , the catalyst being the mention of a cheap flight to Toulouse from Heathrow for £116 return . ’ |
| 5 | That speech , its reception , and my reaction , too , confronted me with what I had already suspected — that my candidacy was a fantasy . ’ |
| 6 | My brother and I had already discussed the possibility of this not being the real Lone Ranger but an impersonator dressed up , and when our man appeared we knew . |
| 7 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 8 | I had already written to them about you , in guarded terms , and their lack of response to my enthusiasms in the way of friends never discouraged me . |
| 9 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 10 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 11 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 12 | And to ease my memory , to free from it some of the words , the phrases I had already written — precious seeds — I would walk and walk ; walk like a man without a camera , who only has his diary to record what he sees . |
| 13 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 14 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 15 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 16 | The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers . |
| 17 | I had already been a prisoner nearly a year and had not yet escaped . |
| 18 | I hoped the exploration would go well and that the cancer would be confined to the kidney I had already rather sadly signed away . |
| 19 | I had already begun an outline for another book and for that I needed some local colour in an Eastern bloc country . |
| 20 | I had already performed a literature search on t-butyl OOH , and we have done some experiments with it on our parasite systems … some of our experiments on the parasites worked well and will appear in The Lancet . ’ |
| 21 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 22 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 23 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 25 | I had already come to the conclusion that regression therapy would probably be the best way to help Maxine , and I put the idea to her . |
| 26 | Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept . |
| 27 | I had already explained to Maxine that discovering the reason for the phobia would not in itself be a cure , and that we would still have to work together to overcome it . |
| 28 | I had already guessed . |
| 29 | Had she but known it I had already made up my mind to get better , and nothing in the world was further from my thoughts than death . ’ |
| 30 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |