Example sentences of "was already [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privily he would have liked to enjoy the fun but his heart was already labouring against the cold . |
| 2 | He was already acting for a number of young painters including Kisling , Hayden and Kremegne , and was determined to find a way of fostering Modigliani 's talent . |
| 3 | He was already thinking of the creation of a Russian army , but had no idea how to go about it . |
| 4 | She was already moving towards the door . |
| 5 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 6 | Maggie peered through the frost that was already forming on the canopy . |
| 7 | Luke shows how the close relationship between God and Jesus was already forming in the twelve-year-old . |
| 8 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mannerism is usually seen as an RCA development ; but once again we find that it was already developing during the Sun period , notably in ‘ Baby Let's Play House ’ ( 1955 ) . |
| 11 | The movement aggravated the sensations she was already experiencing at the contact with Travis 's warm body . |
| 12 | Her hand was already reaching for the telephone when a large shape loomed in what now became recognisable as a doorway . |
| 13 | Luney was already stepping into the boat when Franky saw Delia Sutherland half-way down the steps . |
| 14 | Worse still , one of them had lost its lid and a sluggish , syrupy lake was already spreading across the floor . |
| 15 | Michael was already slipping into a coma after three hours in the cold seas . |
| 16 | As the owl hooted and the night train called , Erika was already slipping into the state where the real world fades and the dreamworld begins , thinking of Fritz and that last , subtle touch of two hands . |
| 17 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 18 | And she was already looking around the room for the gun or the knife that he would surely have about him somewhere . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister was already reeling from a savaging inflicted in the Commons by Labour leader John Smith . |
| 20 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 21 | I spent it on a bike , carried on doing a paper round , and by the time I was 14 , I was already contributing to the family coffers . |
| 22 | Thoroughly alarmed by now , Control pondered what to do , but by the time they phoned Colwyn Bay No 1 box , the train was already standing at the platform , and started to move off . |
| 23 | He was already standing in the doorway , looking at her , and looking damned pleased with himself , too . |
| 24 | Twoflower was already rummaging in the chest . |
| 25 | He was already plunging down the path . |
| 26 | These doorless lifts unnerved Roland ; she stepped in precisely and was lifted above him before he dared follow , so that he was already clambering onto the pedestal she occupied when he lunged forward and up , almost too late . |
| 27 | By the time they got there he was already talking to the watchman . |
| 28 | The following day , with the barricades still in place but support for the insurrection eroding , de Gaulle was already talking about the crisis in the past tense . |
| 29 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 30 | The car was already shaking to the fighting and teasing of the other three children , but a subdued , respectful hush entered the vehicle as Linda and Nick were bundled in . |