Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media . |
| 2 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 3 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 4 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 5 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 6 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 7 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
| 8 | I think I would commend LIFE to you , but it will be with the same conditions and terms as we did last year , with which they did comply . |
| 9 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 10 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 11 | Fred Callaghan , the Woking coach and London cabbie , directs his Vauxhall team to Cambridge United confident that his full-strength squad will not lose their way as they did last season in falling 4-1 to the Fourth Division side . |
| 12 | I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification . |
| 13 | McCallen and Robert Dunlop may again share the two 250cc races as they did last year and Moodie may lift the 400cc . |
| 14 | Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’ |
| 15 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 16 | QPR are also charging the same for their shirts as they did last year — £19.99 — and although their shorts and socks are not yet available they are still among the cheapest . |
| 17 | Never have the game 's laws undergone so radical an overhaul as they did last year — and never have they provoked such an outcry . |