Example sentences of "had already [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process had already begun with a mass mobilization in a literacy campaign which brought the illiteracy rate down from 50.2 per cent to 12.9 per cent by 1981 ( see page 245 ) . |
| 2 | The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf , eating at my innards . |
| 3 | I had already moved onto a better job by then , along with all the other officers who had worked on the loan . |
| 4 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 5 | But Karl Hufbauer has provided a thoughtful analysis of how , before Germany was unified and chemistry professionalised in the 19th century , German chemists had already coalesced into a national , discipline-orientated community . |
| 6 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 7 | Yet urban , industrial polarization had already developed to a considerable degree before 1917 , creating awareness of the political centre among the more sophisticated peasant strata such as village teachers , zemstvo clerks , bookkeepers , doctors ' and veterinarians ' assistants . |
| 8 | He retired in 1863 and , like other well-known professional cricketers of the age , had already embarked on a small-scale business venture . |
| 9 | The royal standard of England no longer fluttered on its pole , a sign that Henry and Wolsey had already departed with a small advance party though Doctor Agrippa had remained , waiting for us in our chamber . |
| 10 | For I had already sat through a grave miscarriage of justice . |
| 11 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 12 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |