Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [subord] [adv] as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If he cut it below himself his object was presumably to save himself as well as his leader . |
| 4 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 5 | The praise of Keegan and the criticism of Brown might have surprised and distressed earlier generations of gentlemen-amateurs but it was logical in its own terms ; if players wished to become rich , they had to sell themselves as well as their skill . |
| 6 | Great writers , I now realize , do not do such things : if they do , they condemn themselves as well as their invented characters . |