Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His plan had misfired as badly as mine . |
| 2 | The latter had vanished as punctually as he had appeared . |
| 3 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 6 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 7 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 8 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 9 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 10 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 13 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 14 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 15 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 16 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 17 | The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me . |
| 18 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 19 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 20 | Its roots had burrowed as deep as its trunk was tall . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 24 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 25 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 26 | 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 . |