Example sentences of "as [pron] had for " 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 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 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 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 5 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 6 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 7 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 8 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 11 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 12 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As it had for Hegel , consciousness again becomes a significant element in the process of history for Lukács . |
| 15 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 16 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 17 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 18 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | He 's had 10 times the number of commission bids for Vung Tau as he had for Nanking — ‘ and this is a much smaller cargo ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |