Example sentences of "had already [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 2 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 3 | The prospect of democratisation was suggested once again but Deng had already hinted at his commitment to the traditional version of democracy practised by the Communist Party . |
| 4 | Miss Linnet Gage , who disliked Cara , had already hinted at her dishonesty . |
| 5 | Walahfrid in Theodoric 's Statue had already hinted at his disaffection : Pippin was not among the family party at Aachen in August 829 , but stayed at home . |
| 6 | Trained in watercolours by his father , the precocious Bonington had already exhibited at the Liverpool Academy before his family left England . |
| 7 | It is presumed that they were then introduced at BMK but it is also recorded that hand loom weaving had already stopped at Burnside in 1881 when second hand power looms rom Crossleys of Halifax were introduced . |
| 8 | Dear Dr Lefeuvre , who had already arranged at least one abortion for you , was always susceptible to bribery , or , if not that , to blackmail . |
| 9 | Shares had already fallen at the end of last year after Fisons estimated that the withdrawal of Opticrom and Imferon from the US markets had cost the company about £65m . |
| 10 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 11 | Far greater than any of these , second only to Palestrina himself , was Tomas Luis de Victoria ( c. 1548–1611 ) , who in 1565 came to Rome from Spain where Morales ( see p. 236 ) and his pupil Francisco Guerrero ( c. 1527–1599 ) had already arrived at a perfection of the Netherland style hardly distinguishable from the Roman . |
| 12 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 13 | In the last general census in 1971 , one-third of 14-year-old girls had already experienced at least one pregnancy . |
| 14 | Agriculture Minister Sotiris Hatzikakis had already resigned at the end of November . |
| 15 | The deceased replied that he had already signed at the top of the document . |
| 16 | The alpine char we had already caught at 220 m , weighing around 220 g each , would not have registered at that depth . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | The royal yacht Osborne had already docked at Ramsgate and the Prince of Wales was passing Dumpton Gapway , comfortably seated in Mr Multhrop 's new Panhard motorcar . |