Example sentences of "that he have already [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reflected indignantly that he 'd already eaten a substantial helping of bacon and eggs about three o'clock that morning . |
| 2 | Such was Beltrami 's legal skills that he had already secured one postponement of the trial , citing Celtic 's European Cup commitments as a bona fide reason . |
| 3 | On 20 April the sheriffs were ordered to make proclamation that the king intended to fulfil his promises , and that he had already appointed the commissioners . |
| 4 | Later that afternoon Mr Brownlow wanted to return some books to a bookseller , and to send some money for new books that he had already collected . |
| 5 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 6 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |
| 7 | We can quickly dispose of the most obvious zone fossil , the king himself , in that he had already lived for 60 years before his era began and we have seen that his era is commonly regarded as lasting several years after his extinction . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was just that he had already made other plans . |
| 9 | The domestic events of the spring of 1937 were not without importance but he took small part in them , and a cursory reading of the Cabinet minutes might suggest that he had already retired in mind . |
| 10 | Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again . |
| 11 | She could n't be foolish enough to ignore the fact that he had already stated that he would go to any lengths to protect it . |
| 12 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 13 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 14 | This aggressive move suggests that he had already asked for his father 's help and was confident that it would soon be forthcoming . |
| 15 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 16 | Following Howe 's personal statement on Nov. 13 , Heseltine on the following day abandoned his earlier position that he would not stand against Thatcher , claiming that he was best placed to win back former Conservative voters , that he had the better prospect of leading the Conservative Party to a fourth successive general election victory and so of preventing " the ultimate catastrophe of a Labour victory in a general election " , and that he had already received the committed support of 100 MPs . |
| 17 | But the Prince stubbornly told his mother that he had already resolved to play polo again the moment his injuries had healed . |
| 18 | Athelstan dare not tell him that he had already resolved one of them . |
| 19 | Using my normal methods , I hypnotized Clive ; he was such a tense young man that I was grateful that he had already experienced regression . |
| 20 | Despite her parents ' invitation to Harry to stay with them in London while he was back in England , he 'd written to say that he had already promised to go to Bertie Alcott 's home in Cadogan Square . |
| 21 | Alexandra said suddenly , standing before him with a plate of wafer thin bread and butter that he had already refused . |
| 22 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 23 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 24 | By this stage it is possible — the idea is corroborated to some extent by Castro 's actions in December 1959 and January 1960 — see pages 72–3 — that he had already taken the decision to embark on a campaign to present the USSR with a fait accompli of ‘ socialist ’ reforms to enlist their total support . |
| 25 | The chief taster said that several of them were excellent and that he had already had some brought into the stores . |
| 26 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 27 | She would n't be satisfied with Charles 's explanation that he had already tried . |
| 28 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 29 | He was aghast when he read it , for the problem was one that he had already solved 15 years before . |
| 30 | However Jim Swire , a leading member of the UK Families Flight 103 group , claimed that he had already managed to take a simulated bomb through Heathrow airport on a flight to New York , on May 18 , 1990 . |