Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time of the committee 's first meeting on March 5 controversy had mounted further still as allegations were made that " names " working inside Lloyd 's had an unfair advantage in trading at the insurance market . |
| 32 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 33 | One afternoon a nurserymaid from the castle had appeared with Richard , and her distress had melted as quickly as it had grown . |
| 34 | There are certain inconsistencies in Leandre 's story , but he was obviously describing what he had experienced as well as he could remember it . |
| 35 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |
| 36 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 37 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 38 | Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression . |
| 39 | John Piper had seen the Diaghilev Ballet in his twenties , had gone as often as possible because ‘ the excitement — the tinge of exultation — in the dancing married to modern music and modern art , worked in my blood and bones . ’ |
| 40 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 41 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 42 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 43 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 47 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 48 | 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 ) . |
| 49 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 50 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 51 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 52 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 53 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 54 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 55 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 56 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 59 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 60 | 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 . |