Example sentences of "she [was/were] already " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need have no fear facing the world , ’ as if she were already clearly seeing her happiness and her children in the fullness of the years . |
| 2 | " Thanks , " he said , drily , " oh , thanks ! " and began stripping off his jersey , as though she were already gone . |
| 3 | That always made her reach , in agitation , for something else , so that when they finally set off she was already exhausted and Paul was angry and full of contempt . |
| 4 | Yet by 1920 she was already submitting to governmental pressures in her Moscow office . |
| 5 | She was already by his side before she thought of how her face and hair must look . |
| 6 | She was already twenty-one and their self-imposed tests of constraint were severely strained . |
| 7 | Jane noticed that it was fairly sheltered — she was already imagining the winter . |
| 8 | She was already far advanced in pregnancy , and soon fell gravely ill . |
| 9 | Then , she had to return and re-powder her forehead and compose herself and try not to be anxious that she was already late . |
| 10 | It was one with which she was already familiar , both of them having helped construct it for regular meditations . |
| 11 | Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her . |
| 12 | But with the album scheduled for a summer launch , Kylie signalled that she was already preparing to leave . |
| 13 | Hard bargains were being driven before she agreed to make her Hollywood debut and she was already planning to take control by producing — and maybe directing — her own movies . |
| 14 | In 1987 , when she entered the House of Commons as the MP for Norfolk South West — a safe-as-houses rural Tory seat — she was already 46 , with none of the outward trappings of a high-flier , merely a proven ability to work swiftly and effectively and an unthreatening charm . |
| 15 | She was already pouring coffee . |
| 16 | By 1945 she was already ill and exhausted . |
| 17 | As she was already walking , she did more work in standing than she otherwise would have , to promote the feeling of taking weight through her left leg while keeping her spasticity under control . |
| 18 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 19 | She was already moving away from the little cot and had her hand on the gas mantle and was turning it down . |
| 20 | He certainly was in no hurry to marry poor Mary as she was already six and half months pregnant . |
| 21 | She was made Head Girl and although it was not acknowledged by anyone in authority , she was already drinking too much . |
| 22 | She was already deaf when she married the Prince of Wales on 10th March 1863 . |
| 23 | Theresa reached for her thick knitted shawl and knotted it around her shoulders — as Weasel had observed , she was already wearing her jacket in an effort to keep warm . |
| 24 | At sixteen , having taken her Higher School Certificate , she was already preparing for her first MD examination . |
| 25 | She was already dutiful and anxious to please him , and she looked so pretty in a dress of sprigged cotton he 'd given her the money to buy for the wedding . |
| 26 | If she was already this tired of his witty conversation , he wondered , how would they ever make it to the coffee stage ? |
| 27 | She was already overwrought . |
| 28 | Ruth did not sleep much , and when Ernest came downstairs next morning she was already up and doing . |
| 29 | She was already dressed , they all were , in preparation for the shipwreck which they felt sure must come . |
| 30 | Her long life had witnessed so many incredible events , but as the final twist of fortune engulfed her , she was already too decrepit , mentally and physically , to come to terms with it . |