Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] already [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 2 | The car was already shaking to the fighting and teasing of the other three children , but a subdued , respectful hush entered the vehicle as Linda and Nick were bundled in . |
| 3 | The widespread implications of the Famine were already coming to the surface . |
| 4 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 5 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |
| 6 | His colleague was already talking to Nigel Cramer , who had spent the night at Scotland Yard . |
| 7 | Not yet halfway to our appointment with the Paradise Bird , each island was already proving to be a kingdom unto itself , and the power of our permits was clearly waning the further we travelled . |
| 8 | The initiative in theology in the closing years of Troeltsch 's life was already passing to those who held that it was not , and that the whole direction of thought which could be seen as culminating in him needed to be put into reverse . |
| 9 | The human was already getting to its feet . |