Example sentences of "[pron] have already " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 See I 've already got Ron a big tin of Liquorice Allsorts .
2 Someone has already taught it to be aggressive towards people : they have reinforced a natural tendency for aggression and its expression .
3 The idea that someone has already taken a very close look before choosing the victim shakes them considerably .
4 Wedgewood sets out to find it and both parties discover that someone has already arrived on the Moon before them …
5 Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised .
6 We pay something like one penny per square metre to cut grass and , as someone has already said , to an extent you get what you pay for .
7 He said , " I suppose that Jasper of yours has already got it .
8 I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card .
9 I 'd already noted the very different methods of the four who had assembled .
10 Olomouc has a population of about a hundred thousand but it 's a small town : I kept bumping into people I 'd already met , and Irena appeared to know everybody .
11 Anyway , I 'd already had one moment of glory with Peter when he won two years before in the 1958 British Open .
12 When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance .
13 Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small .
14 ‘ I felt I 'd already done Prime Suspect , ’ says Lynda , although she did supply the plot outline .
15 There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it .
16 Offers were pouring in , my money was increasing by the week and I 'd already signed with A.T.V. for a T.V. show with five other ‘ New Faces ’ acts — Victoria Wood and Lenny Henry among them .
17 But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated .
18 I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’
19 I 'd already been away since I was nine , ’ Philip retorted .
20 ‘ It 's a great shame because every year the prize-wining pumpkin is used in the seeds contest by a local pub and I 'd already said they could have it . ’
21 I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place .
22 I 'd already heard that you 're an expert . ’
23 I 'd already decided we have to check on him closely .
24 It was early and I 'd already done the shopping .
25 But I 'd already decided that journalism was the perfect career for me .
26 ‘ Yes , well , I 'd already crossed Belgravia off the list , ’ Preston confessed .
27 I had n't heard it before , but I 'd already guessed that the tale would sound something like that .
28 I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group .
29 ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’
30 I was in Nassau on business today but could n't keep my mind on it because I 'd already decided to come up here tonight and be with you .
  Next page