Example sentences of "he had already be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 2 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 3 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 4 | To his surprise he had already been in here ten minutes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he testified , he had already been characterized as Batman , and Superman and , most frequently , Rambo ( but ‘ a Rambo with all his clothes on ’ , as The Spectator put it ) ; he had been a composite Clint Eastwood type , part-lonesome cowboy , part Dirty Harry ; he had been James Bond and James Dean , ‘ the rebel with a cause ’ . |
| 7 | I knew he was dead because he had already been stabbed and had blood on his neck . ’ |
| 8 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 9 | He had already been converted to the new faith , and had , with the Edict of Milan in 313 , granted equal status to Christianity . |
| 10 | He had already been dubbed the ‘ Quaker murderer ’ . |
| 11 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 12 | By then he had already been ‘ discovered ’ and had been taken up by two well-known Cornishmen , Sir Charles Lemon of Truro and J.T. Treffrey of Fowey . |
| 13 | He had already been spotted by Mrs Miller . |
| 14 | Did he imagine he had already been judged and condemned ? |
| 15 | ( But in the 1930s , while a teacher of anatomy at the University of Birmingham and investigating hormonal influences in reproduction , he had already been reproved for obscenity by the Archbishop of Canterbury — the executive head of the Anglican Church — over his first book , The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes . ) |
| 16 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 17 | There were already rumors that the new astronomy was incompatible with Scripture , and he had already been denounced from the pulpit . |
| 18 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 19 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 20 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 21 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 22 | He had evidently been in fear of his life and purchased the weapon for that reason , since he had already been attacked on two previous occasions . |
| 23 | He had already been doing the job unofficially , and now would be paid for it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I never knew by what road the other man would come ; for all I knew he had already been , and gone again , and all in vain , as the thief intended . |
| 26 | He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too . |
| 27 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 28 | In later life he seems to have returned to his early interest in astronomy ( on which he had already been writing papers at the age of eighteen ) . |
| 29 | He had already been seen once that day . |
| 30 | Wickham said this tallied with what he had already been told , but it was undisputed that the old Adler currently on Tavett 's desk was usually there . |