Example sentences of "[vb past] already [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I said the next best thing I said is ring Sarah and she said she 'd already sent a gift , no have a conversation with her , is Lorraine coming today , no she said Terry 's decorating never said where |
| 2 | Roirbak led the way to the laboratory annexe of the complex , where he 'd already prepared a couple of rooms for their research . |
| 3 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 4 | Her little squad had survived one firefight , but she 'd already lost a quarter of her manpower and she was sure that the enemy had plenty of reserves They needed rest and medication , that was the first priority . |
| 5 | She 'd already blown a couple of splendid interview opportunities . |
| 6 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 7 | It 's just slightly off er , the track at the moment , if you were writing a living assurance plan for someone , and they 'd already got a Covermaster plan , |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd already got a fare when we left the theatre . |
| 9 | Which , I later discovered , was most forthcoming for George but he 'd already had a couple of orange squashes himself . |
| 10 | In a way it did n't surprise me , because I 'd already had a taste of what he was up to with that land . |
| 11 | On 15 March , Yugoslavia lodged a formal claim to the silver in the New York State Supreme Court , where the Lebanon had already lodged a claim . |
| 12 | The rough rock walls had already scraped a layer of skin from the palms . |
| 13 | Judge John Petrie said although the offence was very serious he felt it would be unjust to jail McAteer again as he had already served a sentence in connection with this ongoing dispute . |
| 14 | He had already served a prison sentence in New Zealand . |
| 15 | They had already recorded a performance for a television talent show , but died a few days before it was broadcast . |
| 16 | In 1988 , Severn Trent had already begun a £7 million capital programme to bring 17 ‘ derogated ’ supplies below 50 mg/litre by 1991 by blending and taking sources out of commission . |
| 17 | Daddy was going to rebuild it with his own hands and had already done a bit to it when I was young . |
| 18 | I had already done a couple of jumpers for a largish lady , so I embarked on the back of the third . |
| 19 | But the Government had already done a deal giving the Welsh nationalists , Plaid Cymru , a guaranteed place and were determined to keep two others reserved for the main parties , Labour and the Tories . |
| 20 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 21 | The company had already built a road up the side of the mountain without planning permission . |
| 22 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 23 | More than one hundred smartly dressed American solicitors had already chartered a plane and were even now heading across the Atlantic . |
| 24 | HMIs had already expressed a view that there was a prima facie case for the proposal , and the Council agreed that it would mean setting up a music board or at least an exploratory committee — and the DES music panel had offered suggestions of possible members . |
| 25 | Angie Bowie : ‘ Prior to the American Tour , the ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ album had been released and David had already completed a tour of England . |
| 26 | Hay had already completed a tour of operations in the Middle East on twin-engined aircraft and was converting onto heavies at the HBCU . |
| 27 | They had already witnessed a spectacle : the sight of the two cousins ( Norwegian , surely ? |
| 28 | From another letter we discovered that a nun , Simone Donnelly , had already organized a mini-campaign by forming a prayer circle for John through the Catholic newspaper , The Universe . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had already formed a notion of sailing alone round the world . |
| 30 | Hume 's moral philosophy is mainly a development , on an effectively non-theistic basis , of Hutcheson 's and Hutcheson had already advocated a kind of utilitarianism , for in identifying moral goodness with benevolence , he had seen the goodness of a man as essentially the amount of happiness he produced divided by his opportunities . |