Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had do for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 2 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 6 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |