Example sentences of "[vb past] already [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd already suspected that Roman 's secretary was in love with him . |
| 2 | I 'd already heard that you 're an expert . ’ |
| 3 | As I 'd already discovered that for myself , I started thinking . |
| 4 | I had n't heard it before , but I 'd already guessed that the tale would sound something like that . |
| 5 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 6 | Probably you 'd already gathered that it is n't the first time he 's played similar tricks , and that he 's a law to himself , and comes and goes as he pleases . |
| 7 | Erm well I did n't actually hear about it , I 'd already known that sch that such schemes existed . |
| 8 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 9 | Thorfinn had already noted that among the fighting-men and the monks and the household there were women , and boys with clubs in their grip , and old men with axes . |
| 10 | His tone indicated that he did n't hold out much hope , and that his conscience had already grown that little bit heavier in anticipation . |
| 11 | ‘ Our conclusion was based on a ( spoken presentation ) by people who had already decided that Kent Opera would lose its subsidy . ’ |
| 12 | The smaller Gulf states had already decided that , under threat from their ex-champion Iraq , they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran . |
| 13 | Of the two galleries he could see , he had already decided that one was unmanned . |
| 14 | Indeed , the only people willing to endure this ordeal on a regular basis were the screaming queens who had already decided that the best way to cope was to flaunt it . |
| 15 | Viscount Dilhorne had already decided that the appeal should be dismissed before he turned to it . |
| 16 | Angelica had already decided that her money could be taken out of the petty cash and then lost in the books somewhere … and if ever they should be caught doing it , she did n't feel that it was a crime she 'd be ashamed of . |
| 17 | I had already decided that tomorrow I would take the train back to what was now your official European City of Culture for the following twelve months . |
| 18 | The State Department had already decided that if the Jews were turned down by Cuba , they would not be granted entry into the United States . |
| 19 | She had already decided that she would cook dinner . |
| 20 | Lucy had already decided that this would be the wisest course for her to take . |
| 21 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 22 | ‘ I had already decided that we 'd spent far too long apart . |
| 23 | I had already decided that my degree thesis would be on the life of this underrated painter from Milan . |
| 24 | The Italian interior minister had already stipulated that this was the only way he could guarantee the security of the World Cup . |
| 25 | The Italian interior minister had already stipulated that this was the only way he could guarantee the security of the World Cup . |
| 26 | Kakuei Tanaka , a former Prime Minister ( in 1972-74 ) who had also been implicated in the Lockheed scandal of the mid-1970s , had already acknowledged that he had received money from the Sagawa group . |
| 27 | Unlike Robson , who was uneasy with the concept of genius housed in a kindergarten , Taylor had already accepted that if you want his creative input , you take him water pistol and all . |
| 28 | Dave Morris , the Ramblers ' Scottish officer , said the Government had already accepted that it needed to look to Europe for future ideas for the countryside . |
| 29 | Two generations before the Paris Academy was founded , a Protestant crusader for educational reform had already conceded that the state of learning had been ‘ much quickened and strengthened ’ by Jesuit schools . |
| 30 | Mr Kinnock had already stated that secondary picketing would again become ‘ a right to be enjoyed ’ . |