Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But I do get quite a few people phone me as you know asking for information . |
| 3 | Supporting her with his right arm , his left hand strayed from her breasts to her thigh , and from there slowly completed the journey to the mouth of the Cave of Sweet Mysteries , lingering long enough to find the little temple of Min and arouse him as she began to gasp for breath , her tongue making passionate sallies into his ear . |
| 4 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jessica had said , as they had dressed for dinner with her parents , that he would probably be mentioned , and Karen was not to corpse . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Throughout Marx 's work he stresses , as he had done for labour , the fantastic nature of the capitalist concept of property , the fantastic notion that there is something of our personality in the things or places we own . |
| 10 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 11 | The elder brother was shot in the stomach as he knelt pleading for mercy . |