Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 2 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 3 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 4 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 5 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 6 | Moves for peace had begun as early as summer 1904 , when it was becoming apparent that the struggle would be long drawn out . |
| 7 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 8 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |
| 9 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 10 | I took her hand in mine , and we went out of the ruined place ; and , as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so , the evening mists were rising now , and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed me , I saw no shadow of another parting from her . |
| 11 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 12 | The hit-squad 's leader had kept below rather than find himself in confrontation with Louis or be seen by his men to be subservient to or afraid of the Latino leader . |
| 13 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 14 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 15 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 16 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 17 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 18 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 19 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 20 | As the morning mist had risen long ago when I first left the forge , so the evening mist was rising now , and in the clear moonlight I saw no shadow of another separation from her . |
| 21 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 22 | By the 1980s the prevailing agenda had shifted yet again as Latin America , Africa and Asia came increasingly to the centre of Catholic concern with liberation theology upon the one side , inculturation upon the other . |
| 23 | So far things had gone much better than she had expected . |
| 24 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 25 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 26 | His aunt had lived as privately as any woman he knew , but even she had visited and tried to help the Blaneys . |
| 27 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 28 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 29 | The US had maintained as recently as Oct. 15 its opposition to IMF assistance to Vietnam , blocking a French plan at a regional IMF meeting in Bangkok to help Vietnam pay off arrears of US$140 million to the Fund . |
| 30 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |