Example sentences of "as it have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 4 | Could his same notion of ‘ agitational contemporaneity ’ work for Armchair Theatre as it had worked for North American TV drama ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans . |
| 7 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 8 | The Foreign Office Minister , Mr William Waldegrave , said : ‘ The message we must get across is that those in the security services , those working for the state , should recognise that a day of reckoning will come for them as it has come for the East Germans and others . ’ |