Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had done for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 2 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 3 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 4 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 5 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 6 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |