Example sentences of "[pron] had already [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already made one friend who I met on the induction day . |
| 2 | I had already run three miles , and my boots were too heavy for sprinting — besides I did not want to catch the gang in front . |
| 3 | By the time I started my NDD I had already spent five years at art school . |
| 4 | I had already got some friends who came from my primary school but I realized that I could n't stay friends forever with them . |
| 5 | King George 's command of the sea , which had already prevented French assistance reaching Prince Charles 's headquarters at Inverness , proved valuable once again , for food was now sent to Fort William from Liverpool , arms from Dublin and troops from Glasgow . |
| 6 | Minor award schools were categorised as those which had already achieved some success in terms of library/resource awareness within the school , and appropriate developments in library provision , even though they might still be underfunded for meeting those aspirations . |
| 7 | The final hurdle was overcome on Dec. 18 , when the Ministers approved a directive on the question of solvency and capital adequacy for banks-an issue which had already caused deep disagreement , notably in West Germany , where fears had been expressed that it would lead to a dilution of the sector 's relatively high national standards . |
| 8 | At the same time the tables would be turned so that they could actually be used to help finance the project , along with the Right-On councils which had already thrown financial caution to the winds . |
| 9 | However , the government 's threat to withhold payment on contracts with European companies if sanctions were imposed was discounted by many firms which had already encountered long delays in payment . |
| 10 | She had already gained 5 kg in weight four months after treatment . |
| 11 | At their age she had already spent four years working in her uncle 's shop . |
| 12 | She had already had second thoughts . |
| 13 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 14 | But she only wanted the vest for him ; he had a start in life that she never had ; why , when she was his age she had already had one child , and was working in Dublin 's most exclusive brothel . |
| 15 | She had already hurt this dear , kind , woman . |
| 16 | I was born in Hampstead at 10.00 pm. on a Tuesday night and my Mother was very glad to see me , because I was her first boy ; she had already produced two girls with the help of my Father and as the years rolled on she gave birth to another two boys . |
| 17 | She had already taken one A level in law and had another to take in history as well . |
| 18 | When she arrived she had already published several articles and reviews in academic journals , and shortly afterwards her much-revised thesis appeared under the imprint of Lecky , Windrush and Bernstein . |
| 19 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 20 | In 1543 , Henry VIII took as his sixth wife , Catherine Parr , who had already survived two husbands , and she also survived Henry VIII who died in 1547 , to be succeeded by his nine year old son , Edward VI , who became an enthusiastic Protestant . |
| 21 | On April 10 , the French government had extradited a former ETA leader Juan Lorenzo Lasa Michelena , known as " Txikierdi " , who had already served seven years in a French prison and faced several murder charges in Spain . |
| 22 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 23 | It had been arranged by the conspirators that the young shop steward , who had already collected two warning notes as planned , would take out a set of spark plugs in his lunch box at the mid-day break . |
| 24 | Giardini of course shared his countrymen 's disdain for the German interloper J. C. Bach , who had already achieved modest successes on the London stage : in July 1763 he wrote that Bach had departed to ‘ great regrets and lamentations , but easily dried up without a great handkerchief ’ In the end London had to make do with Vento , who was largely responsible for stitching up patchwork operas from assorted numbers that Leone also helped to collect on his travels . |
| 25 | There were the embusqués , who had somehow dodged the war , and the profiteers who had already amassed sizeable fortunes ( from which they were rapidly enriching the restaurateurs and the jewellers , who had never known business to be better ) . |
| 26 | The diaries of a twenty-two-year-old French Second Lieutenant , Roger Campana , who had already had one spell at Verdun , provide one glimpse of how the savage formlessness of the battle seemed to those caught up in it . |
| 27 | In April , at Bayonne , Napoleon , who had already thrown French troops into Spain , compelled Ferdinand to abdicate the throne of Spain in favour of Joseph , the emperor 's brother . |
| 28 | We were laying other horses in the race , sometimes taking bets from people who had already backed Travelling Light . |
| 29 | It was , I think , unlikely that the white Rhodesians — who had already shown some signs of division in their opinion — would have remained undivided indefinitely and a breakaway group might well have sought the allegiance of the black population , enabling them to play a large and even decisive role in government . |
| 30 | They chose Ian Botham , their young hero — he was then twenty-four — who had already performed great deeds in the twenty-five Tests he had so far played . |