Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 2 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , even though it was n't quite the real thing , Dennis had done all right for himself . |
| 4 | ‘ Where the devil 's Frank with my bag ? ’ the doctor snapped , for — ; as much in shock as in pain — Emilia had fainted away again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And all the time David had spoken only briefly to Juliet , to move Gaynor and help her with her gown . |
| 7 | Myeloski said when Leeming had settled once again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Knowing full well that it was n't on her account that Travis had worked so hard , Leith shrugged . |
| 12 | Second , Lyell had outlined very fully — and of course rejected — the comprehensive transmutationist system of biology developed by jean Lamarck , praising the French zoologist for his courage in extending his repugnant ideas to our own species , man . |
| 13 | Well , from what I saw Rods ' goal was a very good goal — driven into the corner , and their goal was a short corner kick which was hit hopefully into the box … everyone was running out ( as you do ) but Wetherall had done extremely well and was covering the cross perfectly as a couple of Everton players lurked hopefully near the far post . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As she said , for someone who was so lonely to be able to come to the studio at five o'clock every morning — picked up in a studio car , Ken had decided long ago he would never drive — and then play a very strong character , was worthy of that respect too . |
| 16 | Ken had come home late from a gig he had not enjoyed . |
| 17 | He said ‘ Kylie had prepared really well for the part of Char . |
| 18 | Gordon Mahoney had gone home about an hour ago . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Of our ship 's company , only Tooth and Tasman had ventured as far east as this , and the waters ahead were equally unknown to all of us . |
| 22 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 23 | Standardised tests had shown that ‘ whereas his two older brothers had scored better on verbal ability than on visual motor ability , Balbinder had performed equally poorly on both ’ . |
| 24 | Battle ‘ You ca n't be disappointed by a run like that , ’ said the jockey after User Friendly 's head-to-head battle with Subotica had gone so narrowly the wrong way for her army of fans . |
| 25 | And Lionan had arrived now also , poised like a cat on a merlon and watching the fight intently , the rapier a silver sliver in his hand . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 28 | As it was , I felt thrilled to be walking on the same ground that young Thomson had trodden long before . |
| 29 | Sukarno had demonstrated once again in a crisis that he represented unity . |
| 30 | Alf had married quite early in his career , and it is said that his son , also Alfred , was an even more talented player . |