Example sentences of "as [pers pn] do in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Drawing pictures , as I do in this text , can also be helpful . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is because such interfaces are believed to be dangerous that men act as they do in ritual situations . |
| 15 | Conversely we are not sensitised to the possibility of sociocultural differences between the sexes , because they seem to share a culture and a history in common , living as they do in close proximity . |
| 16 | as they do in other subjects . |
| 17 | Here Letham Carpets operate a shop-within-the-shop as they do in other Great Mills branches . |
| 18 | My second premise is that in such a complex area , where social , cognitive pedagogic , affective , inter-personal and indeed ethical factors interact as they do in all aspects of education — there is unlikely to be a simple or single answer . |
| 19 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 20 | Values will influence the choice of topic , as they do in all branches of science , but methods should be value-free . |
| 21 | This is probably the most difficult material to handle because the many characters and nationalities involved in the various available libretti must express themselves as distinctively as they do in real life and the choreographer must try and ensure his design has some semblance of reality if it is to communicate meaning . |
| 22 | Transpiration in ozone-damaged trees was irregular and delayed , and transpiration rates did not vary with external conditions as they do in healthy trees . |
| 23 | Horses and ponies in the rest of Europe must have the same sort of protection as they do in this country . |
| 24 | The young women of the hareem , her foster sisters , cousins and young aunts scurried around her much as they do in any society , running errands , advising , gossiping . |
| 25 | Light and dark , colour , texture , viewpoint and composition all play their part , as they do in any painting . |
| 26 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 27 | Offensive odours which emanate from domestic or industrial premises can cause serious annoyance to persons in the locality , and inevitably give rise to public concern , spreading as they do in some cases over a wide area . |
| 28 | The most notable takeover was by the rosebay willow-herb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) which flourishes throughout London as it does in other cities . |
| 29 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 30 | The theme of instrumentality does not come through so strongly in relation to personal care as it does in other types of support . |