Example sentences of "had [adv] given way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 2 | This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century . |
| 3 | By the eighteenth century the older and rougher leathers had largely given way to finer products , often polished and patterned in a variety of ways , e.g. calf could be ‘ sprinkled ’ ( speckled by acid in a regular pattern ) , ‘ mottled ’ ( having an irregular all-over pattern , also produced by acid ) or ‘ diced ’ ( having a pattern of diamond squares ) . |
| 4 | The initial air of reasonableness and cordiality had quickly given way to a more chameleonlike personality , shifting and dodging behind a variety of masks ; one minute the crafty haberdasher , the next the erudite political activist , the next the polite , smiling business associate . |
| 5 | By the classical period of Greek thought the myth of the Golden Age had partially given way to the opposite idea that man 's early condition was ‘ nasty , brutish and short ’ . |
| 6 | Early this morning , in the darkness of his bedroom , waking up after the nightmare , he had almost given way to panic . |