Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb -s] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 3 | It takes the same amount of fuel to cook for 20 as it does to cook for 10 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 8 | As he has done for years , Jean Pierson , Airbus 's boss , replies that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas get billions of dollars of ‘ indirect ’ support from defence programmes and NASA contracts . |
| 9 | Were he to refuse them , as he has done for so long , he would do himself , as well as the public , a grave disservice . ’ |
| 10 | This obviously means that the male 's workload more than doubles , as he has to hunt for his mate and the babies as well as himself . |
| 11 | As he fidgets waiting for his soup , twinkling , twinkling like the little star we know and maybe love , I brightly tell him how thin he looks . |
| 12 | Quite strange but as soon as he 's paid for for the goods and got the goods the chap 's going to go off looking for another . |
| 13 | Yes , well there is another man and she 's told Paul frankly she 's lapping up the attention , he 's taking her out for meals and their having a good time together you know , why its great , but as soon as he 's paid for , for the goods and got , got the goods , the chaps going to go off looking for another . |
| 14 | He argued that he has to persist with his Euro flops as he tries to qualify for the World Cup . |