Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 2 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 5 | Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far . |
| 6 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 7 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 8 | How should one estimate the faults of those who offered incense without any torture , those who gave way only after cruel torture by rack and fire , and those who had not actually offered incense at all but had bribed a friendly official to sell them a certificate to say they had done so ? |
| 9 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 10 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 11 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 12 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 13 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 14 | The company admitted that they had done so to avoid paying the new higher taxes . |
| 15 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 16 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |
| 17 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |
| 18 | As in America , boxing overwhelmingly dominated the attentions of blacks simply because it was the sport in which other blacks had been allowed to compete and they had done so with extremely conspicuous success . |
| 19 | Of the places which did not petition in 1814 , although they had done so in 1792 , some 40 per cent were in Scotland . |
| 20 | Four were thought not to have abused their children , but still to be in need of social work intervention , while 16 were considered to have abused their children but there was no unequivocal evidence that they had done so . |
| 21 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 22 | They wished to kill and devour the father and then imagined that they had done so and felt guilty — is this what happened ? |
| 23 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 24 | Even if somebody had picked it up , maybe they had done so by mistake . |
| 25 | If ‘ we hear the key turn each in his prison ’ , it may be a satisfaction to find occasionally that entry rather than closure is being sought ; for while he had a great many acquaintances and , as his fame increased , hundreds who wanted to meet him if only in order to say they had done so , he lacked relationships which were simple , straightforward , and stable . |
| 26 | Rock art evidence suggests that they had done so in pre-historic times . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 28 | True , they had done so in Roman times , but since then the state 's institutional decline meant that the terms of the competition had shifted in favour of the regions and the aristocracy . |
| 29 | They had done so by being in the right place at the right time , for the first and last time in their history . |
| 30 | If they had done so , the economy would have retained a much fuller utilization of capacity , which in turn would have increased the companies ' profits ( from 1957 to 1963 the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing averaged only 80.5 per cent , nearly 12 per cent less than the peak achieved in 1966 ) . |