Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] as [pers pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the National Liberal Club last night , party activists were busy savouring the mathematic soup stirred up by television exit polls as they waited for the results to roll in . |
| 2 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 3 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 4 | A police constable was injured as bottles and other missiles were thrown at 300 British National Party supporters as they arrived for the rally in York Hall , Bethnal Green . |
| 5 | We use the same word for a quality of material things as we use for a bodily sensation . |
| 6 | The significance of this comparative quiet will not be lost on party leaders as they prepare for provincial elections in the next 18 months . |