Example sentences of "had [not/n't] already [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no idea , ’ Paula said , surprised she had not already heard the news . |
| 2 | The total number of National Assembly seats was brought up from 387 to 400 by the allocation of ( i ) four seats to representatives of other political groupings ; and ( ii ) a further nine seats to representatives of Romania 's national minorities who had not already secured election . |
| 3 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 4 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession . |
| 6 | There has been speculation that he might have been the ideal Tory candidate for the Hexham seat if he had not already given his allegiance to Langbaurgh . |
| 7 | Mr Kevin Williams , the solicitor who exposed Pindown and led the campaign for a full inquiry into the regime , said yesterday the Official Solicitor had asked the children to seek legal advice about compensation if they had not already done so . |
| 8 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 9 | It required those LEAs who had not already done so to submit to the Secretaries of State , by the end of the year , information about their plans for making their schools comprehensive . |
| 10 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 11 | And with great generosity , he prayed that Clare would not be led into mortal sin — if indeed she had not already fallen . |
| 12 | And if Orrie had not already tramped all over it this morning , since his discovery , nosing out the signs of trespass , there just might be something to be found . |
| 13 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 14 | Films like Basil Dearden 's Sapphire ( 1959 ) , dealing with racial prejudice and mixed Marriages , and Victim ( 1961 ) , which cast Dirk Bogarde as a homosexual barrister who decides to take a stand against social hypocrisy , would not have been possible if television had not already put such issues on the agenda . |
| 15 | With the transfer of the empire to the West , when the pope crowned the Frankish King Charlemagne as emperor on Christmas Day 800 , Roman law 's future was assured in those more rural and agrarian parts of Europe within the empire where it had not already penetrated . |
| 16 | He elaborated but there was nothing he had not already told Wickham . |
| 17 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |
| 18 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Scholes is right to say that ‘ interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge ’ ; as much was conceded by Richards in Practical Criticism , a fundamental text of the New Criticism , when he acknowledged that those who had not already read enough poetry would read poems badly . |
| 20 | It might well have been necessary to invent Yeo Davis if they had n't already existed . |
| 21 | ‘ I assure you , ’ he said with weary cynicism , ‘ I did n't see anything I had n't already seen . |
| 22 | Well , that was nothing she had n't already handled . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me something I had n't already figured out for myself . |
| 24 | as if they had n't already got enough to do , the referees will have one hell of a job with the new law . |
| 25 | I might 've considered coming into the business if dear Daddy had n't already got Big Brother as a co-director , ready to take over from him , and if he did n't make it so plain that he only tolerates me because I 'm your husband . |
| 26 | If she had n't already had evidence of his contempt for her she would almost be taken in by this new smiling look . |
| 27 | I definitely would n't have done it if I had n't already released a heap of my own songs . |
| 28 | It was at Shoom that Danny first met Steve Eusebe , the tall , dreadlocked singer who fronts the single , a mellow house groove with deep , soulful vocals that you would swear came straight from a gospel-trained Chicago house singer if you had n't already caught the London inflections . |
| 29 | None of this told the Colonel anything he had n't already known . |