Example sentences of "had already [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballymena had already beaten themselves by then by handing Portadown two bizarre own goals . |
| 2 | Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony . |
| 3 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 4 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 5 | Although watches were extremely rare before the late seventeenth century , the influence of mechanical timekeeping had already made itself felt in a variety of ways , besides those already mentioned . |
| 6 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 7 | The two subjects in the eight-month restriction study who had already limited themselves to 6 hours did not benefit from the regime , and reverted to their own established norms . |
| 8 | Theuderic , who was Clovis 's son by an earlier liaison , had already distinguished himself as a military leader : he could not be passed over . |
| 9 | A third terrorist had already flung himself on top of Patrick . |
| 10 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
| 11 | Other executives had already asked themselves the same question . |
| 12 | It seems to me , not only that this does not appear , but that the contrary appears ; for the plaintiff before the letter had already bound himself to marry , by placing himself not only under a moral , but under a legal , obligation to marry , and the testator knew it . |
| 13 | While the others stood and gawped , she had already pushed herself over to the storage lockers and was busy tossing the flimsy emergency spacesuits over . |
| 14 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |
| 15 | All parties to the April 1989 round-table agreements had already committed themselves to free multiparty elections at the end of the new National Assembly 's first four-year term — see p. 36578 . |
| 16 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , under pressure from the separatist Parti Québecois ( PQ ) , the Liberal provincial government of Robert Bourassa had already committed itself to a referendum on secession by Oct. 26 unless an agreement had been reached on a new constitutional structure . |
| 18 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 19 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 20 | The radical faction , however , was somewhat strengthened by the enhanced position of Khomeini 's son , Ahmad Khomeini , who had already established himself within the Iranian political scene [ see p. 36630 ] , and who after his father 's death was able to claim that his views and pronouncements carried the authority of the late leader . |
| 21 | By the early fifth century , certainly , Christianity had already established itself in Ireland . |
| 22 | She had already found herself in isolation over progress to monetary union and the endorsement of a social charter of workers ' rights , and it became clear that the new European Community order would be built on an even closer alliance of France and West Germany . |
| 23 | The possibility was alarming , because she had already found herself susceptible to his masculinity . |
| 24 | Perhaps she had already compromised herself beyond recall by accepting the invitation . |
| 25 | Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight . |
| 26 | Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight . |
| 27 | As they were doing so , Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight . |
| 28 | He had already put himself out by agreeing to see Dougal at such short notice . |
| 29 | Alice had already told herself that it would be stupid to think about those applications yet . |
| 30 | There was no resistance from government forces , most of whom had already allied themselves with Masud . |