Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to rush off just as he was about to arrive . |
| 3 | It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister . |
| 4 | Fen had seen her angry before , but never so angry that she had lashed out physically as well as verbally . |
| 5 | Ruth kissed her aunt and then , clasping her hands tightly in her own , she said what she had to say as gently as possible . |
| 6 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 7 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 8 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 9 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 10 | She had glanced up briefly as Kerry , one of her assistants , approached her . |
| 11 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 12 | ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’ |
| 13 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 14 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 15 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 16 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 17 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 18 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 19 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 20 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 21 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |
| 22 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 23 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 24 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 25 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 26 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 27 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 28 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 29 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 30 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |