Sentence examples for had already been dropping from inspiring English sources

When a professional police force was first deployed in England, homicide rates had already been dropping for centuries.

Now, after two years, Oakland's crime rate, which had already been dropping before Mr. Brown took office, is hovering near a 30-year low.

A series of shoes had already been dropped.

The Federal charges against Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn had already been dropped.

She had no brothers, so her own father's name endures with our children in this way, but her mother's had already been dropped.

By the time her husband got home, Francisco had already been dropped off at his friend Jai's house, forever banished from the Villanuevas' ordered American lives.

Stern had already been dropped by Clear Channel fol lowing an interview in April last year with Rick Salomon, who appeared in a notorious internet porn video with hotel heiress Paris Hilton.

Two of the lesser charges had already been dropped – one by the judge and one by prosecutors themselves at the beginning of the trial.

Nottinghamshire made it as far as the fourth over before losing their first wicket, although the victim, Steven Mullaney, had already been dropped behind before Scott Borthwick pouched him at second slip.

And it will no doubt be fine-tuned (burning the American and Israeli flags had already been dropped by the fourth performance) in its subsequent journey to eight other European cities, ending up at the Paris Opera in 2005.

He had already been dropped from the team earlier in the season and the nightclub incident, in which he was cautioned for relieving himself in the direction of bouncers who had evicted him for drunken behaviour, was clearly the final straw.