Example sentences of "that had [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in their determination to score , the team lost the tactical balance that had served so well before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Suggestion scheme secretary said : ‘ Suggestions are dealt with anonymously by a panel , so they were unaware that had done so well ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was worse — to have him apologise for something that had felt so right , so wonderful . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He arrived with a Radio Shack hand-held computer phone dialler and a two-speed microcassette recorder for Coleman to use with the code that had worked so successfully before , based on a standard telephone touch-tone pad . |
| 13 | The import of the Mallion lines could be considered the most beneficial thing that had happened so far in the breed . |
| 14 | Gilberto 's next words had shaken Zen more than anything that had happened so far . |
| 15 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 16 | Municipal workers were dousing the remnants of the street fires that had burned so brightly the night before . |
| 17 | The Holy Week that had passed so harshly for the children in Sea House had passed less fearfully in Dynmouth itself . |