Example sentences of "for [pron] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without these pupils , the new schools could not of course demonstrate whether or not they could provide for them as well as the grammar schools had . |
| 2 | ‘ It creates good publicity for them as well as being good for the community . ’ |
| 3 | Although students had a small subsidy , the increases represented a further erosion of living standards , for them as well as other urban residents.a Price rises of 30–50 per cent were not uncommon at this time . |
| 4 | My winning has done something for them as well as me . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll have hot water for them as soon as we get to the house . ’ |
| 6 | The Tropicana experience began for me as soon as I arrived … it may have been the small hours yet the reception staff were still delighted to greet the new arrivals . |
| 7 | It meant the US Tour and that meant an attractive career for me as well as him , I hoped . |
| 8 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 9 | I had never taught in a classroom before but , although daunting at first , it turned out to be education for me as well as the students . |
| 10 | ‘ All right then , I 'll go to find Maud by myself , but I 'll come back for you as soon as I 'm changed back and I 'll get you to a magician somehow . |
| 11 | Some of the lessons we learnt that will make the next one better , for you as well as us are ; |
| 12 | Next week we spell out what they mean for you as well as providing a full list of all the candidates standing for election . |
| 13 | We 've paid enormous attention to making cookery a treat for you as well as your family , by positively helping you to cook a better meal . |
| 14 | With no escape route , Belinda was forced to take a long , hard look at herself , re-evaluating expectations for herself as well as Sophie . |
| 15 | Rain intended to get the keys for herself as soon as Ruby had finished with them . |
| 16 | Josh Gifford , for whom he had been first jockey before his illness and who had assured him that his position as stable jockey would be waiting for him as soon as he had recovered . |
| 17 | Even worse , Clare , with her ruddy , apple-red cheeks , used successfully to beg Father to get stand seats at Meadow Lane for her as well as me and himself when Notts County played at home . |
| 18 | If they are already nervous — if , for example , a predator has recently been harassing them underground — they may be less inclined to endure further stress and make a bolt for it as soon as the ferret shows itself . |
| 19 | Most women go for it as soon as they hear that he 's a bachelor . |
| 20 | are health reasons for it as well as being grossly overweight |
| 21 | I was born in Durban and brought up in Zimbabwe so it was an historic moment for myself as well as the South Africans . ’ |
| 22 | Nothing personal , you understand , simply a need to have something for themselves as well as proof that Rangers ' millions can not guarantee them everything . |
| 23 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 24 | " Is it going to be for us as well as about us ? " she asked . |
| 25 | The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we play our cards right . |
| 26 | Ensure a brighter f future for us as well as them . |
| 27 | More representatively there can be a sneaking hope that to explain is somehow to justify ; and the novels , plays and poems that depict British self-sufficiency and its lapses often smack , like Larkin 's poem ‘ Vers de société ’ , of a sort of rueful mock-modesty : a determination to put a case for oneself as well as to record a mood . |