Example sentences of "had already [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1543 , Henry VIII took as his sixth wife , Catherine Parr , who had already survived two husbands , and she also survived Henry VIII who died in 1547 , to be succeeded by his nine year old son , Edward VI , who became an enthusiastic Protestant . |
| 2 | He had already cast her as Ptolemy , the boy king , in Caesar and Cleopatra . |
| 3 | He did not even know that most of the Scottish host had already cast off everything that weighed it down , and taken to flight , acknowledging the truth of this meeting . |
| 4 | When he went for the audition , playwright Bernard Kops and director David de Keyser had already cast Melvyn Hayes in the lead role and asked the star to read scenes with those trying for the other parts . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
| 6 | Then we saw that Boniface of Eastbourne had already headed for home , so we turned and started back for our good harbour . |
| 7 | This had already necessitated the disposal of books from its library , including a complete set of Audubon 's Birds of America . |
| 8 | HP boasted that over 100 IBM customers had already offloaded or replaced applications from their mainframes over to HP business systems and servers over the past year , and quoted Dataquest figures that show 46% of mainframes sites surveyed in the process of downsizing . |
| 9 | On 15 March , Yugoslavia lodged a formal claim to the silver in the New York State Supreme Court , where the Lebanon had already lodged a claim . |
| 10 | He told the Commons that British officials had already lodged protests with the French authorities and that the French government would be left ‘ in no doubt ’ that Britain expected it to act speedily . |
| 11 | Colt had already shut the sound from his head , and the Colonel showed no sign of having heard it . |
| 12 | He had already stowed the cockpit awning and set up the barbecue . |
| 13 | ‘ Police were on the scene very quickly , but he had already cycled away . |
| 14 | ‘ Police were on the scene very quickly , but he had already cycled away . |
| 15 | Tribout , says Moon , tried to repeat Ben 's Maginot Line at Bolx just before leaving for America — he had already repeated it once — and failed . |
| 16 | The rough rock walls had already scraped a layer of skin from the palms . |
| 17 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
| 18 | Yeltsin had already asserted on Aug. 13 that , after signing the Union Treaty , the Russian Federation should control its own resources . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Gundovald , a supposed son of Chlothar , who had been excluded from the succession in 561 , took advantage of the situation to revive his claim to the crown , which he had already asserted with Byzantine support in 582 . |
| 20 | All but three had already served under Mr Heath . |
| 21 | By a strange irony of history , the prime minister in 1939 , as a result of deaths and resignations , was Count Pál Teleki who had already served briefly as prime minister from 1920 to 1921 . |
| 22 | Among those who went were John B Dynes and Edward Wright who had already served in the 1914–1918 War . |
| 23 | He had already served a prison sentence in New Zealand . |
| 24 | The judge , Mr Justice Humphrey Potts , said he would have put Casabona behind bars for two years but he had already served an equivalent term on remand . |
| 25 | By this time , however , the draft had already served its purpose in the court case . |
| 26 | who had already served their time er |
| 27 | Schaub had already served in Paris and he acted jointly with Sutton from March 1721 until the latter 's departure . |
| 28 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 29 | On April 10 , the French government had extradited a former ETA leader Juan Lorenzo Lasa Michelena , known as " Txikierdi " , who had already served seven years in a French prison and faced several murder charges in Spain . |
| 30 | Since these initiatives were primarily holding operations until the Algerian war was over , they had already served their purpose . |