Example sentences of "they had [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
6 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
7 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
8 | A good deal of credulity and nonsense was indulged in the name of psychology but there was no nonsense about the concept of ‘ psychological obsolescence ’ , the new technique for making people dissatisfied with what they had bought more quickly than ever before . |
9 | They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible . |
10 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
11 | ‘ Felicity , ’ said Julia , suddenly remembering the morning they had spent together just before she fell ill . |
12 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
13 | 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 . |