Example sentences of "as [pron] had for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you leave , if you leave let's say if you get caught and sent back then you 're gon na get back you know twice as much as you had for the reason for leaving . |
| 2 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 3 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 4 | The mystical writings of the fifth century author who had adopted the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite were quite well known in Europe , even though they never had the same appeal for Europeans as they had for the Greeks . |
| 5 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 6 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 7 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 8 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |
| 9 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 10 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |