Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 A school enjoying high status compared with its neighbours , located in a solid middle-class area , housed in relatively new buildings and already in receipt of other resources ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) ) would be felt to have so much going for it already as to be less sympathetically considered than other schools .
2 Language is as old as consciousness , language is practical consciousness that exists also for other men , and for that reason alone it really exists for me personally as well ; language like consciousness , only arises from the need , the necessity of intercourse with other men .
3 ( Indicating costumes ) We had to run for it just as we were .
4 But the king replied , ‘ Tell them not to send for me again as long as my son is alive .
5 His hand reached for hers again as they went into what might have been a salon in the heyday of the old house .
6 Now , after 9,500 miles , I wish I had gone for something else as there is only 3mm of tread left on each tyre all the way round .
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