Example sentences of "[vb past] already [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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1 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
2 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
3 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
4 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
5 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
6 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |