Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 2 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought forensic methods had become so refined that it would be impossible to touch gelignite without some traces lingering about one 's person . |
| 4 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 5 | Mine were of that last tropical downpour in Samaná when the potential violence had seemed so distant to me . |
| 6 | He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust . |
| 7 | But all the other animals had grown so suspicious of El-ahrairah and his tricks that they would not let him out of that wretched country and every day Prince Rainbow used to come walking through the marshes to make sure that El-ahrairah was still there . |
| 8 | All his energy was concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other , to get out to the Lock before Marie provoked Simon into uncoiling his other self , the one hidden behind the attentive , polite , charming Simon in whom Marie had invested so much of her trust and hope for the future . |
| 9 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 10 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 11 | Rachel was invited to join them and she was happy to do so , but for the rest of the day she could n't forget that moment when David had moved so close to her ; she could n't forget the look in his eyes , a look that had implied that the conclusions drawn by others about his intentions towards her could be well founded . |
| 12 | In the days since her visit to me , her mind had become so used to the idea of walking in the vicinity of birds that it had seemed quite a natural thing to do . |
| 13 | Armed with computers , the procurement department did its job much faster , reports Larry Skinner , the company 's chief of re-engineering , but it actually took longer for anyone in TI to purchase supplies because filling out all the forms demanded by the procurement department had become so complicated . |
| 14 | Eleanor had known so many flowers as a child , each by its botanical and by its common name . |
| 15 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 16 | He plundered the opposition and hired Pearce Marchbank , a designer whose covers had done so much to establish the identity of Time Out on newsstands , as co-editor , along with Al Clark . |
| 17 | Unlike the sycophantic official court chronicles — the Shah Jehan Nama that Dr Jaffery had spent so long transcribing — the accounts of the two European travellers were packed with reams of malicious bazaar gossip . |
| 18 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 19 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 20 | Yet whatever common sense suggested or arithmetic dictated , I half-believed these were the children of the women Rosa had tried so hard to have live up to her Spartacist ideals . |
| 21 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 22 | The Harris/ITN exit poll shows that , overall , one in five people who voted Labour had done so tactically ( nearly a third of Lib Dem voters also did so ) . |
| 23 | Most of the practices making savings had done so on their hospital budgets , and this was attributed to a combination of setting favourable contracts , making fewer referrals , and doing more minor surgery in house . |
| 24 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 25 | They also indicated that they would surrender their arms to ECOMOG as soon as the NPFL had done so . |
| 26 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 27 | The French negotiators had very little leverage , because their president had indicated so often and so publicly his determination to reach an agreement as soon as possible . |
| 28 | In consternation , she tried to make out why the hard , grim mouth had become so appealing . |
| 29 | However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit . |
| 30 | He knew le Maître went every Tuesday to see his wife , although from all accounts her condition had deteriorated so much she was unable to converse with anyone and , at times , did not even recognize her husband . |