Example sentences of "already been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has already been on holiday to Portugal and is looking forward to moving to Cambridge to be near her daughters and grandchildren . |
| 2 | Horne has already been on loan at Middlesbrough and Stoke this season . |
| 3 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 4 | The ancient Egyptians had ready access to gold , mined as well as alluvial , in the eastern desert , and had already been in contact with south-west Asia during their Predynastic phase . |
| 5 | Weldex has already been in contact with Sunley Turriff , AMEC and Keir Construction , which have all acquired Lilley companies , and it will take on the hire contracts previously carried out by Piper Plant ( Scotland ) . ’ |
| 6 | In such cases , I would recommend that you seek professional help , for the dog you have acquired may have already been in conflict with his former family and won the contest . |
| 7 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 8 | The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've already been in touch with the Secretary-General . |
| 10 | The French King seems to have taken this as an insult and , if he had not already been in touch with the Poitevin rebels , he very soon was . |
| 11 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 12 | Alex Stein has already been in touch with you , however I would formally confirm that we would be interested in such a publicity campaign for Council Tax at about the time bills are being issued in April . |
| 13 | Fortunately I had already been in touch with the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , whose representative I met by chance on their stand in an exhibition marquee during Environment Week . |
| 14 | West Mercia police have already been in touch with nine other forces and set up a committee covering the west and south of England , the Midlands and Wales to prevent any more Castlemorton style gatherings . |
| 15 | We have already been in touch with two GP practices in Middlesbrough to see how much of the medical history we can pick up , and shall be doing the same in Sunderland . |
| 16 | Many smaller firms in Darlington have already been in touch with me about the jobs they say are being put at risk . ’ |
| 17 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Conservatives on Darlington Council , has already been in touch with the South African Embassy in London to organise the high-level trade visit . |
| 18 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Conservatives on the council , has already been in touch with the South African embassy in London to set up the trade visit . |
| 19 | Stitt has watched a video replay of the incident on numerous occasions and already been in touch with colleagues who were involved in Danny Thomas 's case against QPR 's Gavin Maguire . |
| 20 | She 's already been in touch with , with him , a letter |
| 21 | At a time when copper coinage had already been in use for some centuries at the heart of the Han empire , wealthy leaders of the tien community in the southern province of Yunnan were storing hundreds of thousands of cowries in the great bronze drums which were a prominent feature of the Dong-Son culture focussed on northern Indo-China . |
| 22 | It probably came there from Babylonia , where the simplest form of the outflow type had already been in use before the time of the early Shang period ( c. 1500 BC ) . |
| 23 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 24 | He 's already been in prison for seventeen months awaiting trial on drugs charges . |
| 25 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |