Example sentences of "i have already [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd already posted off loads of stuff , but there was quite an accumulation from 6 months , including the tent and camping gear which was only used , in the event , at the Easter rally . |
| 2 | Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 5 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 6 | Well I 'd already spoken to the man who was running the course , the lecturer and he told me I could go on it , but his secretary said it was booked . |
| 7 | Offers were pouring in , my money was increasing by the week and I 'd already signed with A.T.V. for a T.V. show with five other ‘ New Faces ’ acts — Victoria Wood and Lenny Henry among them . |
| 8 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 9 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 10 | I had already explained to Maxine that discovering the reason for the phobia would not in itself be a cure , and that we would still have to work together to overcome it . |
| 11 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 12 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | I had already moved onto a better job by then , along with all the other officers who had worked on the loan . |
| 14 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 15 | ‘ Before contracting the illness I had already gone through a nightmare year with injuries . |
| 16 | I had already written to them about you , in guarded terms , and their lack of response to my enthusiasms in the way of friends never discouraged me . |
| 17 | I had already achieved something ; I had already proved to myself that I was capable of independent achievement . |
| 18 | I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism . |
| 19 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 20 | I had already come to the conclusion that regression therapy would probably be the best way to help Maxine , and I put the idea to her . |
| 21 | ‘ I had already tried in my youth to enlist in the Forces as an officer cadet , which would have allowed me to enter the arsenal and precede Lortie in a rampage . |
| 22 | Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable . |
| 23 | For I had already sat through a grave miscarriage of justice . |
| 24 | Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept . |
| 25 | for help and in fact , I had already spoken to the Justice and Peace Group , so I do n't really know where the muddle had come , but he said he got a , a list from British Section and Bishop 's Stortford has n't got any representative at all , which is extraordinary , so I do n't whether Rose has little note and told Mr . |
| 26 | I had already discussed with Roger Penrose the idea of defining a black hole as the set of events from which it was not possible to escape to a large distance , which is now the generally accepted definition . |
| 27 | ‘ So I 've already gathered from your own choice of decorating gear , ’ he murmured , once again letting his eyes roam freely over the leotard and leggings clinging lovingly to her like a second skin . |
| 28 | And I 've already explained to you how I would arrange things . ’ |
| 29 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 30 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |