Example sentences of "have already taken [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a considerable shake-up at the Northern Ireland Office , where Sir Patrick Mayhew has already taken over from Mr Peter Brooke as Secretary of State . |
| 2 | The carrier , whose losses cost Spanish taxpayers about Ptas33 billion ( $122m ) in 1992 , has already taken over three privatised South American airlines and bought a large stake in a fourth . |
| 3 | He has already taken over 12 million paces and worn out six pairs of tough walking boots . |
| 4 | The company set up a joint venture with Magneti Marelli the Italian firm which has already taken over two big Lucas plants in the Midlands . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 6 | It 's a message that one entrepreneur in the region has already taken up … in the nick of time . |
| 7 | The Angel Hotel , Bury St Edmunds , has already taken on two extra workers and is seeking four more after a bumper 12 months . |
| 8 | But you 'd already taken out |
| 9 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 10 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 11 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 12 | As far as control was concerned , the Government had already taken over . |
| 13 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |
| 14 | By January , the navy had already taken over the oil fields from striking oil workers and was producing just under a third of normal output , . |
| 15 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 16 | It was more than possible that Zhukov had already taken off more prints for himself . |
| 17 | Romantic Colin had sent the telex to Orlando airport but the aircraft had already taken off . |
| 18 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 19 | This is a challenge which I and my colleague John Davis have already taken up . |