Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , yes , you could , you certainly could , and as I said for long periods , parental an and offspring self interest will overlap . |
| 2 | For once in my life there was no need to believe as I did or act as I chose for any reasons other than that I was personally convinced it was right . |
| 3 | When I stayed with my husband and children at the Holcombe Hotel in Oxfordshire on the Great Escapes scheme this summer I was told I would get free accommodation as long as I stayed for two nights and paid for dinner and breakfast at a cost of £33.20 each per day . |
| 4 | On this occasion we thought it so important that we invited the bishop to lay hands on the team as they were sent out and began to meet on Sunday mornings , initially in a large sitting room as we searched for suitable premises . |
| 5 | Both men lapsed into silence as they searched for familiar faces amongst the last of the crowd trickling into the stadium . |
| 6 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 7 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 8 | Huge jams built up behind the 74-year-old pensioner as he crawled for five miles along the inside lane of the dual-carriageway A1 . |
| 9 | Barnacles were a fit subject for Darwin to work on , as he did for many years , because of their curious metamorphosis ; and also because of the way in which males have regressed to become merely vestigial in some species . |
| 10 | If not , the batting options are almost limitless — including the possibility of Gooch dropping down the order , as he did for several one-dayers in India , and Mark Lathwell opening with Alec Stewart . |
| 11 | Neither had any inkling of Gooch 's worries as he reported for two days pre-tour training at Lilleshall in each of the weeks leading up to Christmas . |