Example sentences of "as it was for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much in the book that will be as new an exciting for most readers , as it was for me . |
| 2 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 3 | " It was as hard for me to keep quiet as it was for them , " Brown Owl , Mrs Sheila Scott , told the Southampton and District WWF Group Chairman , Geoffrey Cockrell , when he went along to one of their cheerful , noisy meetings in July to receive a cheque for WWF . |
| 4 | The demob was as slow for them as it was for us . |
| 5 | It reminded me yet again that our captivity was as much of a strain for them as it was for us , here in Lebanon . |
| 6 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 7 | Consequently death is no longer in the midst of life as it was for our ancestors and still is in many Third World countries . |
| 8 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |