Example sentences of "do n't [vb infin] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort . |
| 2 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 3 | Perhaps it 's the furniture that would send a splinter into a man if he did n't sit as still as a rock . |
| 4 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 5 | What started out as an objective assessment like ‘ That lesson did n't go as well as I had expected ’ gets recast as ‘ I made a mistake ’ which leads to ‘ I 'm a poor teacher ’ and even ‘ I 'm a failure ( as a person ) ’ . |
| 6 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 7 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 8 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 9 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 10 | Did n't sell as well as it ought to have , that book . |
| 11 | Of course , our buzzers did n't work as quickly as theirs , and they got all the easy questions . |
| 12 | Cos you do n't go as slow as this , even round here something like that Ann . |
| 13 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 14 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 15 | But I confess I do n't go as often as I might , ’ Omi said . |
| 16 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't do as well as she 's done in the majors without being a very good player , ’ said Jim Webb , the LPGA 's deputy commissioner . |
| 18 | If you do n't want to spend as much as £400 , remember that cheaper beds do n't last as long as more upmarket models . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't fare as badly as some showbiz celebrities I 've talked to . |
| 20 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 21 | The form is all you have in the initial stages , and if you do n't erm fill it out sensibly then you do n't get as far as the interview , when of course your individual personality can start to come through . |
| 22 | I do n't work as hard as I used to . |
| 23 | I do n't heal as quickly as I used to . |
| 24 | Being a rugby player , I mean , suppleness does n't come into their training an awful lot , so what tends to happen , if your muscles are n't loose and your running around , the slightest jar attacks and pulls muscles , you injure yourself , so if the muscles are more supple , which aerobics does do , then you 'll find that erm injuries erm do n't occur as often or should n't . |
| 25 | Actually they do do n't play as well as they used to . |
| 26 | And I would like to say thank you to the people who sit on the budget review sub- committee , a committee which actually I do n't attend as often as I probably ought to , particularly to the labour spokesperson , for the way he 's guided the committee , both from within the chair and at other times , on it 's work this year , to be able to propose a budget which erm , so well fulfils the aims that many of us had when we were elected in May , which were of course , to maintain services , er , to squeeze efficiency out of the sy into the system and squeeze any waste out , and to get our officers working towards zero base budgets . |
| 27 | Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’ |
| 28 | I had run out of ideas ; ideas do n't come as easily as all that . |
| 29 | Your leading hand is used to perform a reverse punch , but it does n't travel as far as a refereeing panel would like . |
| 30 | He does n't exist as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |