Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1340 the king conceded that parliament should have the right to grant the maltote , which it proceeded to do for a period of fifteen months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In mid-1991 the ALP lost a by-election in Geraldton ( which it had held for more than 70 years ) , winning only 16.7 per cent of the primary vote and recording an unprecedented negative swing of 30 per cent . |
| 6 | The Conservative Party ( CP ) described them as " a recipe for revolution " , whereas the Democratic Party said that the proposals included virtually everything it had called for . |
| 7 | The stink assailed his nostrils , bringing back memories of that last visit and what it had done for him . |
| 8 | unwound himself and you could tell his two years , what it had done for him . |