Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [subord] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | May we learn to value ourselves as well as other people . |
| 2 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 3 | McLeish surprised himself as well as her . |
| 4 | The people backing it ‘ bunkered ’ ( disappeared with the money ) and as Producer Tiller felt morally bound to pay off all the artistes himself as well as to find their return fares . |
| 5 | These precious and fragile masterpieces in ‘ Florentine Drawing in the Age of Michelangelo ’ , which include works by the master himself as well as Leonardo , Raphael , Pontormo , Bronzino and other top names of the Italian Renaissance , will be shown in the Sainsbury Centre 's environmentally controlled exhibition space , its lighting system specially designed to display such sensitive material . |
| 6 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 7 | Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . |
| 8 | In himself as well as in her . |
| 9 | If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader . |
| 10 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 11 | He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader . |
| 12 | No , I 'm sort of I think he confused himself as well as confusing me slightly |
| 13 | The particle of matter is instantly whipped towards the black hole by the huge gravitational tug ; the antiparticle is simultaneously repelled , and zips off to become a part of our Universe — although probably not for very long , because it will annihilate itself as soon as it encounters another matter particle . |
| 14 | Suppose , first , that the other player is also Tit for Tat ( remember that each strategy played against copies of itself as well as against the other 14 ) . |
| 15 | The Group saw group moderation by teachers as a vital element , as being a process with significant benefit to teachers in itself as well as providing a crucial counterbalance to crudely over-simplified test results . |
| 16 | Town and fortress were closely connected , and indeed the burgh of Stirling not infrequently had a battalion of infantry in the town itself as well as the permanent garrison . |
| 17 | Touching the image of a jug on the screen will provide information about the object itself as well as background information on Roman food and eating habits , banquets and recipes . |
| 18 | This would be good in itself as well as helping to decrease sexism in mathematics classroom materials . |
| 19 | It will also examine the structure and economics of the conversion business and the nature of the conversion process itself as well as looking at local authority planning policy on conversions and the problems conversion may generate . |
| 20 | With no escape route , Belinda was forced to take a long , hard look at herself , re-evaluating expectations for herself as well as Sophie . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She loved their pale shining ; clean brass was a pleasure , its proper maintenance a pleasure to herself as well as to Lizzie . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rain intended to get the keys for herself as soon as Ruby had finished with them . |
| 25 | She kicked herself as soon as she had said it . |
| 26 | I was born in Durban and brought up in Zimbabwe so it was an historic moment for myself as well as the South Africans . ’ |
| 27 | I manipulated you here to punish you and you 're right — I 'm hurting myself as well as you . ’ |
| 28 | Start trying to help yourself as soon as you feel an attack coming on . |
| 29 | And this means being able to forgive yourself as well as other people . |
| 30 | You have to take account of the worry to your family and yourself as well as the advice that you receive on the merits of your claims . |