Example sentences of "it had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had appeared for a while that Coronation Street 's rival EastEnders , boosted by a weekend omnibus , would oust it from top spot in the ratings . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to suggest that the draw has not presented Sardinia with an even bigger security problem than it had bargained for . |
| 3 | The French Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , said , however , that Poland would not get the 80 per cent write-offs that it had asked for . |
| 4 | The Confederation of British Industry said this was close to the Budget it had asked for , with increased export credits , the advance corporation tax ( ACT ) question addressed and smaller firms helped . |
| 5 | The country in the south had been really weird , with mushrooms of crumbling lava and wide flat rivers to cross , and it had rained for days , which had added to the general air of unreality as these features kept emerging from the mist . |
| 6 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 7 | In spite of the sacrifice it had made for the High Dam at Aswan , whose turbines generated megawatts of electrical power , Wadi Half a still had no electricity . |
| 8 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 9 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |
| 10 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 11 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |
| 12 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And they had got this contract for this er this lawyer who there was a great big er case it had run for long enough . |
| 15 | I just did n't know how deep it had gone for you . |
| 16 | And when it had trembled for twenty-two |
| 17 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 18 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 19 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 20 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 21 | Passionate homesickness rose and buffeted his harder than it had done for months . |
| 22 | The stink assailed his nostrils , bringing back memories of that last visit and what it had done for him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 25 | unwound himself and you could tell his two years , what it had done for him . |
| 26 | Japan announced that it would increase by 5,500 million yen ( approximately equivalent to $34,000,000 ) an 8,000 million yen special fund which it had created for providing technical assistance to Latin America . |
| 27 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 28 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 29 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 30 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |