Example sentences of "had already " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1984 and 1986 , those with AIDS died on average some ten months after diagnosis , but by 1987 to 1989 , the survival period had already doubled to twenty months . |
| 2 | One of Morelli 's youthful students was Bernard Berenson , whom Morelli described in 1890 as ‘ an extraordinarily scholarly young man who had already advanced far in the study of art ’ . |
| 3 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 4 | I had already been part of the theatre working as an ASM at the Cambridge Arts Theatre , not with the University but with the |
| 5 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 6 | However , this was a fairly necessary compromise : paragraph 2 had already conferred on the Roman catholic church a ‘ special position ’ in the state , on the grounds that the church was ‘ the guardian of the Faith professed by the great majority of its citizens ’ . |
| 7 | The process of industrialization and the accelerated growth of the division of labour had already wrested from the family , including its rural variant , its monopolistic role in the processes of production . |
| 8 | Of particular importance to the anti-divorce campaign was a lawyer , William Binchy , who had already produced a book in 1984 on the subject . |
| 9 | In early May , two-thirds of Fianna Fáil TDs from the West had already indicated they would campaign in their constituencies against the amendment ( Irish Times , 2 May 1986 ) . |
| 10 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 13 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
| 14 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 15 | Henry had already discovered that he was a solicitor and his wife a |
| 16 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 17 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 18 | Andy and I had already split up before their thing got going , but even so , it makes you think a bit . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 21 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 22 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 23 | Dudek , no prude , had already delivered his concern at this , finding the ‘ adolescent sexuality ’ an offence against the higher standards of art . |
| 24 | She had already posted the entry . |
| 25 | ‘ You have beautiful legs , ’ Ray tried , but one of the other men had already told her that . |
| 26 | Remembering that philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century had already assimilated thought to perception , this is not surprising . |
| 27 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 28 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 29 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 30 | By 1989 there was only one regular instance of Speedlink and Freightliner traffic sharing the same train , this being a service between Bristol and Coatbridge , but the organisation had already begun marketing its two products as complementary rather than competing systems , itself an important step forward in the history of Railfreight . |