Example sentences of "already done a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 2 | This suggests that during a fluent phase a speaker has already done a major part of the planning before beginning to speak a clause . |
| 3 | I 've already done a hundred miles , where 's the other Ne Well he said Well actually it 's in Wales , and I thought Oh no ! |
| 4 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 5 | Choir member Margaret Candler said : ‘ We have already done a sponsored sing to pay for the theatre so everything made on the night will go to the charity . |
| 6 | At the Confederation of British Industry , we have already done a large amount of research into the sources of international competitiveness , and we now welcome the interest that the Government is showing in some of our conclusions . |