Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as i do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 2 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 3 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 4 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 6 | You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there . |
| 7 | They know as well as I do that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who heads a company . |
| 8 | You know as well as I do that art and commerce have walked hand in hand since at least the Renaissance . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ellen , you know as well as I do that she can never forget me ! |
| 10 | He knows as well as I do that , like the assisted places scheme , they are another step towards privatisation of the education system . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend knows as well as I do that no Government have brought the police force to such a level as this Conservative Government have done . |
| 12 | But you know as well as I do that you want to go a great deal further than that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You know as well as I do that you want me to come to your room so you can make love to me ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know as well as I do that ninety per cent of the population in Hong Kong live in apartments . |
| 15 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 16 | But you know as well as I do that not everybody responds to it . |