Example sentences of "already [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Posing as a London businessman , he has already tricked at least two female estate agents in the North into meeting him alone . |
| 2 | He hurries to the Male Staff toilet and finds Rupert Sutcliffe and Bob Busby already ensconced at the three-stall urinal . |
| 3 | It is presumed that they were then introduced at BMK but it is also recorded that hand loom weaving had already stopped at Burnside in 1881 when second hand power looms rom Crossleys of Halifax were introduced . |
| 4 | They passed a counter above which hung trusses of pigeons , pheasants and other less identifiable but more disturbing birds ; Helen grabbed Edward 's arm to hurry him on but he was already gazing at a row of hares suspended by their feet from a rack . |
| 5 | Dear Dr Lefeuvre , who had already arranged at least one abortion for you , was always susceptible to bribery , or , if not that , to blackmail . |
| 6 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 7 | Shares had already fallen at the end of last year after Fisons estimated that the withdrawal of Opticrom and Imferon from the US markets had cost the company about £65m . |
| 8 | We have already looked at writing in catalogues , and can now turn our attention to the critical responses which appear in articles . |
| 9 | There are hints of one in the story of Rahab and the spies that we have already looked at , hints of an attack mounted on the basis of inside information gathered in that dangerous night of pleasure , or of stealthy entry into the city gained by means of Rahab 's treachery . |
| 10 | We have already looked at ways in which complicated organic molecules could have come into being when the Earth was young ; and these complicated organic molecules could well have included nucleotides and amino acids . |
| 11 | The periphery refers to practically anywhere ( including the mainstream and ‘ quality ’ press we have already looked at ) that oppositional or , as is more likely , alternative criticism might occur . |
| 12 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 13 | We have already looked at some of the indications that the area under cultivation was expanding : within the frontiers of old villages , in land formerly waste , in forest and marsh , and on the frontiers of Christendom . |
| 14 | We have already looked at some aspects of what makes each one of us the distinctive , uniquely individual people that we are . |
| 15 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 16 | We have already looked at Liam Hudson 's early work on personality and subject choice . |
| 17 | Among these borderline cases will come the short-story version of the inverted detective story we have already looked at , the story where the murderer is known to the reader from the outset and the pleasure lies in seeing how , inadvertently , he betrays himself , or she herself . |
| 18 | You can see from the video plans we 've already looked at that the main difference between viewing television at home and using video in the classroom comes from the tasks you set your learners . |
| 19 | Local authority housing provides an example of the former and we have already looked at the role of charges in the NHS . |
| 20 | We 've already looked at one of them , briefly . |
| 21 | We have already looked at the movement of settlements , changes in plan and form etc. in the landscape , but nevertheless for most of today 's settlements the criteria which applied when the settlement originated are no longer relevant . |
| 22 | Whatever the structure of the organisation , good communication lies at the heart of success — and , because of the complexities we have already looked at and the many factors which influence the way in which messages circulate and are received good communication is perhaps more difficult to achieve than good product design , manufacturing productivity or success in the market place . |
| 23 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |
| 24 | And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference . |
| 25 | I 've got a couple of pieces of correspondence about things you 've already looked at , erm , just minor alterations |
| 26 | I mean , the point about this is that actually I must emphasise it 's a needs based assessment , both in allocating the overall amount of money that goes to the various areas and er those of you who 've already looked at it will see that area three seems to have a disproportionately high amount of the money . |
| 27 | shall we just look at one or two erm documents that you 've already looked at please , would you go to page twenty nine , just the illustration that seen and this is the I 'm not sure whether a point is going to be made about this or not , but if you look at page thirty one there there 's a golf club on the left and a man fishing on the right |
| 28 | Yeah , I 've already looked at that one it 's alright Bedge . |
| 29 | Neil Fairbrother 's team , who have already won at Surrey and Sussex , were today drawn to visit Leicestershire in the semi-finals . |
| 30 | Indeed Tivoli — who 's software already lies at the heart of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment and Unix International 's distributed vision of the future , Atlas — has already agreed to make WizDom compliant with the Object Management Group Request Broker specifications under its agreement with SunSoft Inc . |