Example sentences of "already [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These agents are unfortunately fairly easy to come by and the Iraqis have already proven themselves to be masters of er subversive acquisition , er given that they are also now fired with a certain amount of fundamentalism , and should they find their backs to the wall , that even be accelerated . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Had n't she already given herself that very same advice ? |
| 5 | Well done to all QT 's who have already enrolled themselves and reminded their class members to renew membership but to date we still need over 1,000 members to meet Sports Council requirements . |
| 6 | Theuderic , who was Clovis 's son by an earlier liaison , had already distinguished himself as a military leader : he could not be passed over . |
| 7 | The Lord Chancellor 's civil servants can , they say , only recruit judges from among advocates who have already distinguished themselves by their performance in court . |
| 8 | Her heroine on the show is Lightning and she has already christened herself the junior version , Spark . |
| 9 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This brings the UK into line with the Danish , Dutch and Swedish authorities , who have already committed themselves to preserving Decca at least until the end of this century , while the positions of Ireland and Norway have not yet been declared . |
| 12 | How can the Government give an assurance that there will be no change in VAT rates when , under the Single European Act , the Government have already committed themselves to a policy of convergence of VAT rates throughout the European Community ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By now I have already committed myself to so much , he wrote . |
| 16 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 17 | We want to know — The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) can leap up and tell me — the House would be delighted to hear from him — how he will cover the difference between the £10 billion of extra taxation to which his party has already committed itself and the £35 billion of extra spending to which it has also committed itself ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 21 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 22 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fergus sprawled in the cafeteria banquette and said the challenge was to deconstruct something that had apparently already deconstructed itself , since the book was about a painting that turned out to be nothing but a chaotic mass of brush-strokes . |
| 26 | That to be honest is , is somebody who 's like , been doing this for ten years and has already got themselves like half a million pounds of worth of equity . |
| 27 | She 'd already got herself into all sorts of trouble listening to other people 's opinions , and she was n't going to make that mistake again . |
| 28 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |
| 29 | Whatever the court 's decision , most Venezuelans have already persuaded themselves that their whole government — president and Congress together — is rotten to the core . |
| 30 | Suppressing a sigh , she surveyed the map of Copenhagen with which she 'd already armed herself before leaving England , refreshing her memory as to the location of the street where Suzie 's presence had last been authenticated . |