Example sentences of "[vb past] already be [prep] " 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 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 5 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 6 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 7 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 8 | Normally this could be kept under close observation and could clear up of its own accord in optimum conditions , but as these fish had already been through so much , I decided to treat then with herbs . |
| 9 | Archie had already been through every drawer in the tallboy . |
| 10 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 11 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 12 | As most of the leading American challengers arrived at the tough , par-70 lay-out to begin their preparation , Faldo had already been through a punishing schedule since Thursday . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The same line of attack was used against Massachusetts ; the charter had already been under examination , and in 1684 the courts ruled that Massachusetts had exceeded its authority and the charter was forfeited . |
| 15 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 16 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 17 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 18 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although this put dioxins in the public spotlight , there had already been at least nine similar accidents , including one in Derbyshire in 1968 and in Germany in 1953 . |
| 21 | Perhaps she had already been to one . |
| 22 | He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class . |
| 23 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 24 | Should I tell her here and now that Ewen Mackay had already been to the cottage ? |
| 25 | I had already been to the dinner party . |
| 26 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 27 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 28 | To his surprise he had already been in here ten minutes . |
| 29 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 30 | She had already been in her cups , and became hysterical , and then suicidal . |