Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 2 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 3 | Volunteers constantly tug in all directions while others bewail the imminent end of the organization — just as they did last week , last year and ( in a few cases ) last decade . |
| 4 | People tend to get hold of wrong ideas , just as you did last night . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 6 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 7 | He had watched the Rolls Royce pull up as he did most mornings . |
| 8 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 9 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 10 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 11 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 12 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 13 | Will the outswinger still swing as late as it did last summer ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm , I mean I really ca n't , I do n't expect them to surge ahead as they did last year but all the signs are that , that , they 're doing very well and er , it 's a very well managed business erm , great cost control er , I do n't know whether you noticed recently that Meryl des described the erm , the management of erm , of A W as the er , I think it was the creme de la creme of the |
| 15 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |