Example sentences of "[that] had [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a much larger cut than the government had planned , larger indeed than the announced cuts that had caused so much controversy in 1976 . |
| 2 | The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect . |
| 3 | Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that , and that had gone so far , you know , that timber , that has crushed the timber all , more or less all together . |
| 4 | But in their determination to score , the team lost the tactical balance that had served so well before . |
| 5 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 6 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 7 | Some local authorities continued to engage outside contractors but others that had done so reverted to in-house provision . |
| 8 | It was an illusion that a building society has never gone bankrupt ; there was two that had done so , where investors had lost money . |
| 9 | In 1806 , Napoleon made the most of his victories by imitating the Caesars and decreeing that a great monument should be set up in honour of the Great Army that had done so well . |
| 10 | Suggestion scheme secretary said : ‘ Suggestions are dealt with anonymously by a panel , so they were unaware that had done so well ’ . |
| 11 | There was much wrath that he had been meaninglessly sacrificed and a Test career that had given so much pleasure needlessly brought to a premature end . |
| 12 | In the capitalist West new markets opened up , and the industries that had become so busy and productive in the war effort were ready to go again in a postwar boom . |
| 13 | Carved into the stone was more of the same type of repulsive alien art that had become so familiar over the past couple of days . |
| 14 | However , Dr Tim Synott of the Oxford Forestry Institute suggested that plantations might be suitable on some formerly-forested lands that had become so degraded as to have very little biological value . |
| 15 | Mother never stopped telling me she did n't care for the lax morals that had become so fashionable since the outbreak of the war . |
| 16 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 17 | This was worse — to have him apologise for something that had felt so right , so wonderful . |
| 18 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 19 | Her beautiful jet hair that had moved so provocatively on the yacht that night hung limp and lifeless at the side of her ashen cheeks . |
| 20 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |
| 21 | The Statute of Treason , passed in 1352 , set out a limited definition of the crime , and implicitly excluded from its scope political offences of the kind that had brought so many families to destruction between 1322 and 1330 . |
| 22 | The day that had loomed so large in everybody 's minds , 25 November , began grey and dull . |
| 23 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |
| 24 | The ring that had seemed so small for just two men was suddenly full of ecstatic members of the Lewis camp . |
| 25 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 26 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 27 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 28 | The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait-jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs . |
| 29 | After having lost over fourteen hours to the weather , the game was called off with the score at 227 for 6 declared , and a series that had promised so much with its exciting start fizzled out meaninglessly , with almost seven of the twenty-five playing days lost . |
| 30 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |