Example sentences of "well as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 2 | It meant the US Tour and that meant an attractive career for me as well as him , I hoped . |
| 3 | She realised that not having spoken to him for ten days had given her a perspective she had not previously had — a perspective on herself as well as him . |
| 4 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
| 5 | The bride , however , may speak instead of her husband or as well as him . |
| 6 | To give myself a shock as well as him . |
| 7 | His head came down again , and suddenly , as her whole body started to come alive , Leith found she was having to fight herself as well as him . |
| 8 | Following your training in lifting people , you will know that you need to work out first what method suits the resident as well as yourself . |
| 9 | As no one , who knows what he is about in good company , would venture to talk all ; — so no author , who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding , would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader 's understanding , is to halve this matter amicably , and leave him something to imagine , in his turn , as well as yourself . |
| 10 | You may be the one person to bring about improvements which will benefit many others as well as yourself . |
| 11 | On the whole , good secateurs are safer and cleaner for your roses , as well as yourself . |
| 12 | You can think you know someone as well as yourself , but then you are caught up , surprised , by something they say . |
| 13 | Well I mean you learn as well as yourself . |
| 14 | So these beginning years focused on reality — the underbelly of creation as well as its brightness — which was of immense importance to the making of the man and his mind . |
| 15 | The book highlights such subjects as animism , Jewish , Christian and Hellenistic ‘ mythologies ’ ; the realities of health , sickness and death ; of nature — its seasons ( notably Spring and Winter ) and its glories , as well as its decadence ( we find no evidence for Djwa 's contention that ‘ the book moves through cycles of winter death followed by spring rebirth , ’ any more than for her ‘ structural myth ’ or ‘ controlling Orpheus myth ’ which form the foundation for her critique of the book ) ; of rationality and madness ; loneliness and intimacy ; of truth and treachery , prayer and protest ; of prophet and priest , doctors and teachers , angels and devils ; freedom and slavery , sainthood and sinning , wonder and despair , war and peace , love and loss , beauty and brutality ; regret and humour ; sensuality and discipline , joy and sadness ; of the greatness of God and his creation , and the pitiful smallness and incompetency of man ; the city and the breadth of nature itself : sea and air , rivers and countryside ; savagery and urbanity ; loss and its disappointing pangs . |
| 16 | Beautiful is the one titled ‘ Priests 1957 ’ ( in honour of the family name , as well as its traditions and responsibilities ; The Spice-Box Of Earth , p78 ) : |
| 17 | The sense of delight , of gentle wonder , the startled realisation of his sense of her bodily perfection and spiritual grace is consummated not merely in their mutual passion but more enduringly in that oneness which is beyond time and space , which understands the fragility of love as well as its strengths , its ethereal qualities as well as its physical needs . |
| 18 | The sense of delight , of gentle wonder , the startled realisation of his sense of her bodily perfection and spiritual grace is consummated not merely in their mutual passion but more enduringly in that oneness which is beyond time and space , which understands the fragility of love as well as its strengths , its ethereal qualities as well as its physical needs . |
| 19 | By 1960 , Sisson was a top Civil Servant ( 'civil to everyone , and servant to the devil' ) and had published a treatise called The Spirit of British Administration , memorable for its irony as well as its broad view of the subject . |
| 20 | It is a scene of national psychopathology that has its humorous moments as well as its deplorable aspects . |
| 21 | This helps to structure the content of its programmes as well as its public image , and until the mid-1980s , Radio I was aiming at the 16–25 age group . |
| 22 | In imitating gender drag implicitly reveals the imitative structure of gender itself — as well as its contingency . |
| 23 | Fenna is the dark force of the imagination as well as its golden dancing ; Fenna is chaos as well as order , and brings , on fiery dragon breath , the full danger of the chasm . |
| 24 | Merrill Lynch , the largest US broking firm , is planning a restructuring which could mean hundreds of redundancies affecting its overseas offices as well as its domestic base . |
| 25 | Indeed , with what he callls its ‘ huge range of expression ’ as well as its power to fill even the largest concert hall , Hardenberger feels that the trumpet is a particularly valuable instrument for the contemporary composer . |
| 26 | The Aral has lost 40 per cent of its surface as well as its fish and the fishing fleets that netted them . |
| 27 | If the Eucharist is that important , a second question follows : How can we help others to understand its theological significance as well as its mystery to which we subject ourselves in humility ? |
| 28 | We will consider its mystery as well as its glory . |
| 29 | To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature : at the Passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock , the holly whistles as it battles with itself , the ash hisses amid its quiverings , the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall … |
| 30 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |