Example sentences of "[subord] it had for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 2 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 3 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 4 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 5 | As it had for Hegel , consciousness again becomes a significant element in the process of history for Lukács . |
| 6 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |