Example sentences of "[pron] have already [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised . |
| 2 | The singing , the crying and the screaming — I thought I had already been killed and gone to hell ! |
| 3 | As it was , they were all staring fixedly at the entrance to the place , so I had already been inspected by them . |
| 4 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 5 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 6 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 7 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 8 | But I 've already been done so |
| 9 | ‘ I 've already been contacted by people as far away from the airport as Holywood and Cultra , as well as many businesses , worried about this possibility , ’ said the City Council Ulster Unionist deputy leader . |
| 10 | I 've already been warned by my dad . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I mean I 'd really like to , but I 've already been shouldered out of the Nativity play . |
| 12 | It 's like , I 've already been asked , and I 've refused , and I want to know why is it people put so much pressure on you to get married ? |
| 13 | I 've already been asked why on earth I 'm taking this job in a rugby town . |
| 14 | Although I have to confess I 've already been working on it . |
| 15 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 16 | I mean I 've already been offered well three or four jobs already like . |
| 17 | I 've already been offered three or four jobs with salary like you know . |
| 18 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 19 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 20 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 21 | He continued : ‘ I have already been slated over and over again by local climbers for putting bolts into the rock face at Land 's End , but this is the way forward ; of that I have no doubt . |
| 22 | ‘ I have already been told I will need an operation and it is going to take some time to sort out my problem . |
| 23 | Erm I was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if you 've got an aircraft which is er going to replace , as I understand it the Jaguar and the Phantom which has already been retired , er against which you 've been comparing the F three er and the G R four of the tornados and the harriers , then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these , in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty , might we order more for example ? |
| 24 | In particular , perhaps , there will be the question of agreeing the partners ' profit shares , the problem of which has already been touched on in Chapter 4 . |
| 25 | The distinction between adjudicatory and regulatory tribunals is that the former are making a binding decision following a reference by a person aggrieved by a decision which has already been made , whereas the latter are directly applying a system of government regulation rather than supervising or reviewing the proper application of the system of government regulation . |
| 26 | The main argument presented here is that the General Strike was partly , but significantly , a consequence of the determination of successive governments to reduce wages , thus increasing unemployment in the short term , in the hope of strengthening the pound and returning to the gold standard — a view which has already been developed in Chapter 1 . |
| 27 | For those readers who are familiar with the circular flow model outlined in Chapter 1 , this appendix is intended to provide a slightly more rigorous approach to that which has already been developed in Sections 1.2 — 1.5 . |
| 28 | The hypothesis is that we have now reached the end of the particular combination known as Fordism and are embarking on an as yet embryonic and relatively unknown period , but one which has already been given a name — neo-Fordism . |
| 29 | A sizeable exhibition of Pre-Columbian Peruvian artefacts which has already been seen in Rome , Madrid , Linz and Brussels , is now at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt ( House of World Cultures ) , Berlin , until 23 August . |
| 30 | This partial detachment from natural appearances , which has already been seen in the landscapes of Picasso and Braque of 1908 , is one of the factors that distinguish most clearly their approach from that of Cézanne and other nineteenth-century artists , and even from the Fauves , whose vision , with the occasional exception of Matisse , despite the liberties they took with their subjects , was still conditioned by their instantaneous reactions to their surroundings . |