Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 2 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 3 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 4 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 5 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 6 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 9 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |