Example sentences of "had already [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British . |
| 2 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 3 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 4 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 5 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 6 | But Americans had already moved on to another massive and distinctively North American style , the station as office block . |
| 7 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 8 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 9 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 10 | The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure . |
| 11 | Word had already gone around about the sex sequence , and there was also some interest in the political content , coming as it did shortly after the attempts at peace in Vietnam and Nixon 's pledge to end the war . |
| 12 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 13 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |
| 14 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 15 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 16 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 17 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 18 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 19 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 20 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 21 | Slorne had already calmed down by the time Creggan and Minch had finished speaking and the following evening the Sweeper came and she was calm again . |
| 22 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 23 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 24 | But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control . |
| 25 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 26 | Many with whom she had shared the screen for a brief while , people whom she had revered , who had even seemed to define life — such as Akhmatova and Pasternak and Vysotsky — had already slipped out of the plot , and the film churned on as if they had never been . |
| 27 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 28 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 29 | In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June . |
| 30 | By this time , Sinead had already linked up with Farrelly in Dublin |