Example sentences of "[subord] it have [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 2 | ‘ I need that cash for a deposit on my new place , but it looks like it 's gone for good now . ’ |
| 3 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |
| 4 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 5 | An eye movement period started and after it had persisted for 10 minutes , cold water was sprayed on his back . |
| 6 | And when it had trembled for twenty-two |
| 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 . |
| 9 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |