Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week .
2 For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population .
3 It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) .
4 And it asked for the Scottish Office Guidelines , and those in Lord Justice Butler-Sloss 's Cleveland Report , to be made law .
5 Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game .
6 If your constipation does n't improve , especially if it happened for no obvious reason after years of no trouble , then see your doctor .
7 But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished .
8 This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull .
9 Some from , a lot from the heavens , because it rained for a solid week after the excavator had left and erm from the springs , it 's a natural water-gathering area .
10 Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister .
11 Had they not supported it when it called for the major means of production to be taken over ?
12 AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo .
13 He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire .
14 The ‘ Snap ’ camera was used with the supplied software , ( not suitable as it stood for the required measuring instrument ) .
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