Example sentences of "as [pron] have [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that as I had worked for Harold Wilson and enjoyed his total confidence for several years , there was some duty to try to deter him from the worst mistakes . |
| 2 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 3 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 4 | In over ten years of supplementing fish food with earthworms , I have not been able to relate fish death to earthworm feeding as I have done for tubifex . |
| 5 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 6 | I packed you up in your painted form as I have done for every move I have made since the Summer Exhibition , and we travelled down to Bodmin together , you and I — ’ |
| 7 | Juliet was waiting for her father 's denial , as she had waited for her mother 's , but again , it did n't come . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From time to time she suffered from bouts of depression as she had done for many years . |
| 10 | He wondered , once , if she would weep for him as she had done for Ansaldo . |
| 11 | Silvia 's spoken English , as she had heard for herself , was excellent , but she 'd had dreadfully poor results in her written papers . |
| 12 | Meryl extricated a copy of the Sunday Shocker from the rack with as much nonchalance as she could muster , and hid it within the folds of her own more conservative newspaper as soon as she had paid for them both . |
| 13 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 14 | As she had worked for the civil service previously , she applied and was sent a booklet which specified an age range for applicants of 17 ½ to 28 years . |
| 15 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 16 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 17 | Bollards as we 've asked for across the frontage as well , and the back . |
| 18 | I am afraid that while this ban is in force my wife and I will not be trading in Darlington as we have done for the last 20 years . |
| 19 | Often particular normal modes are essentially identical to particular group modes , as we have seen for and , but in other cases substantial mixing of local modes occurs . |
| 20 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |
| 21 | The same method of pultrusion as we have described for the GRP rod and tube is applied to carbon . |
| 22 | The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures . |
| 23 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 24 | People came out of the forest and went into the forest as they had done for centuries , making the deep tracks down Steep Ridgery . |
| 25 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 26 | Jessica had said , as they had dressed for dinner with her parents , that he would probably be mentioned , and Karen was not to corpse . |
| 27 | Saturday was another day for outings , as they had arranged for us to go to an Art Exhibition in the afternoon , and to a singing and dancing programme by ‘ Minority Nationalities ’ ( Ughars , Kazaks , Mongolians , Tibetans , etc. ) in the evening . |
| 28 | The warning her anxious mother had impressed on her as they 'd waited for Folly 's plane at Athens airport had obviously been quite correct . |
| 29 | The terms of desire , fantasy and the unconscious as they have functioned for film theory seem to me to lose much of their explanatory power at the level of subjectivity and identification , and it may be , as Gillian Skirrow has suggested for video games , that television can be more adequately thought through a theory of object relations . |
| 30 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |