Example sentences of "had [vb pp] to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who defended the idea were supporters of the evolutionary hypothesis who saw the linear arrangement as the ladder by which life had ascended to the highest form , humankind . |
| 2 | It occurred to her hazily that her own condition was like that of a bulb she had once seen when the power had been suddenly cut down and the light had dimmed to the faintest red glow in the filament . |
| 3 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 4 | Half an hour previously , Captive Audience had run to the best of his ability in the lads ' race , plugging on one-paced up the Sandown hill to take second place . |
| 5 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 6 | His gaze had contracted to the merest topaz thread in a face where sudden bleakness polished his hard cheekbones to a dull , luminescent ivory . |
| 7 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 8 | Its yellow distemper had faded to the palest sulphur over the years . |