Example sentences of "[coord] already [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.

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1 Only a few metres through its portals and already the spell was reaching her , soothing her jagged nerves .
2 ‘ I 've been so worried about you finding out , ’ admitted Rachel , and already the relief was apparent in her tone .
3 It was six o'clock in the morning and already the temperature was rising .
4 But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats .
5 But already the crow was making off , flying low with slow , heavy wing-beats .
6 His physical substance had been a tonic , but already the hunger was coming back .
7 The grandiloquent , dramatizing style of the TV orator developed later , but already the appeal was messianic , the choices stark .
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