Example sentences of "as [noun pl] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as books written specifically for school use , pupils should at some stage come into contact with biographies and memoirs , published diaries , historical fiction and some writings about local history . |
| 2 | If you opt instead to send relatives and friends money to spend as they wish on their children , it 's worth shopping around as costs differ considerably for the various methods . |
| 3 | If you opt instead to send relatives and friends money to spend as they wish on their children , it 's worth shopping around as costs differ considerably for the various methods . |
| 4 | If you opt instead to send relatives and friends money to spend as they wish on their children , it 's worth shopping around as costs differ considerably for the various methods . |
| 5 | At lunch hours things get busy as customers queue up for the small range of soft pasta dishes and such daily specials as vegetable lasagne or a spicy Italian-sausage casserole — all moderately priced and consistently good . |
| 6 | THE pound had another tense day , struggling to hold its own on the exchanges as investors waited nervously for weekend opinion polls before deciding their next move . |
| 7 | The parents paraded with placards outside the Forest of Dean District Council offices as members turned up for a planning meeting . |
| 8 | Despite a slow start there was soon a reasonable amount of activity as students came in for their lunches . |
| 9 | These seemingly harmless four words are repeated several times to form the lyric ‘ As clouds roll by for you and I ’ . |
| 10 | How about ‘ As clouds roll by for me and Dai ’ , or ‘ As clouds roll by I spit in your eye ’ . |
| 11 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 12 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 13 | As preparations moved ahead for the invasion of Europe , the American Army was landed in Scotland at the Gareloch and Loch Ryan . |
| 14 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |