Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 32 | Her head was now so bent that her dark hair had swung forwards so as to obscure her expression . |
| 33 | 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 . ’ |
| 34 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 35 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 36 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 37 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 44 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 45 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The scaffolding had been cleared away and the plastering had progressed as far as the season would allow . |
| 53 | I asked Toby why he thought John had reacted as violently as he had to the whole business of our falling in love . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Its roots had burrowed as deep as its trunk was tall . |
| 56 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 57 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 58 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 59 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 60 | Valerie Cass had left rather petulantly as soon as she had finished her gin , and Malcolm Harris , breathing imprecations against Michael Banks , had gone soon after ( without of course , buying a round ) . |