Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " 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 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 6 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 7 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 8 | 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 . |