Example sentences of "as [pers pn] do [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 2 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 4 | I do not feel competitive with Pamela as I do with other women , because Pam , in her unwitting splendour , is not pretty as other women are . |
| 5 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 6 | And maybe you need to be thirtysomething yourself to feel as I do about these people . |
| 7 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 8 | I discovered soon after my illness the same energies walking beneath the cliffs of Lyme Regis , in the shadow of Mary Annan and the ichthyosauruses as I do in this hamlet . |
| 9 | But I think that you have got to regulate these things and choose couples , like you may , as you do for adoptive children and not , just like throw in anybody these things have got to be controlled . |
| 10 | You will find this card a real boon anywhere in Europe because it allows you to pay for goods and services with eurocheques , just as you do with ordinary cheques at home . |
| 11 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 12 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 13 | Lydia felt strongly that the author of the universe probably thought much as she did about sexual matters . |
| 14 | If she decides to forgive and forget , as she did after previous takeover attempts , she might not be able to rein in the military . |
| 15 | As we do for any competitor , ’ says Barry Wheeler , assistant marketing director of Otis . |
| 16 | We are er overseeing them , as we do with other contractors , but it is , it is the district and it 's their own contractor and we hope that they will improve their performance . |
| 17 | In such a setting we learn as much through observation and experience as we do through deliberate instruction or training . |
| 18 | At the other extreme you could set up giant screens to show large images of the speaker as we do in larger conferences such as the Institute of Directors at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 19 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 20 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |
| 21 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 22 | Sometimes she saw the three of them as expatriates , stranded in some remote colony , obstinately adhering to old customs , a lost way of life , as they did to old forms of worship . |
| 23 | Standing at a safe distance , my eyeballs popped at the sight of the rich variety of penises on show , ranging as they did from dainty chipolatas to Bowyer 's jumbo sausages , with a few unfortunate specimens doing impersonations of mummified button mushrooms left for dead at the bottom of a refrigerator . |
| 24 | Of course vaccines alone will not prevent child mortality caused by infectious diseases ; better social and economic conditions , and better education about prevention play a major part , as they did in industrialised countries about a century ago . |
| 25 | Coming as they did in organised groups around strong personal leaders , the Saxons tended to name their settlements with a combination of local place features and , more importantly , a worthy 's name . |
| 26 | Nobody loves you when you 're down and out and if United go down to Forest , as they did in last year 's sixth round , Ferguson may well be out . |
| 27 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 28 | Keith Richardson says it was an excellent Gloucester performance and with Wales beating England it just goes to show that the formbook can be beaten and Gloucester could well beat Bath on Saturday if they run and tackle as hard as they did in this game . |
| 29 | These differences influenced success or failure just as they did in earlier state-making attempts , especially through their effect upon economic growth , which not only provides resources for extending the state apparatus and developing national education , but is also a major factor in conferring legitimacy upon the regime . |
| 30 | The Head and Governors have a special burden of responsibility as they do for all matters concerned with the running of the school . |