Example sentences of "already [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 . |
| 2 | But as Seabrook points out , rugby league already has the same sort of thing in every town . |
| 3 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 4 | I knew that Brian had already made the same decision , but , unlike the other two , he had no need to talk about it . |
| 5 | It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others . |