Example sentences of "as [pers pn] did [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 2 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 3 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 4 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
| 5 | Yeah the actual as you did successful sales course we can note your comments down okay , I 'll give you a set of these now , write the sales person 's name across there and write your comments , criticisms , what was done well , what was done badly , what could be improved on and it 's his role play cycle , give this to the sales person . |
| 6 | So I 'd like you to , as you did this morning please , move your chairs all round , close the blinds , and er , it 's the , the second video of the day . |
| 7 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
| 8 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 9 | ‘ I must stress that the involvement of armed forces , the police and the voluntary services will cease once the trades unions agree , as they did two weeks ago , to provide normal accident and emergency service ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 12 | Counties such as Lincolnshire , Kent and Buckinghamshire can be expected to drag their feet over comprehensive reforms , as they did 20 years ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 15 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 16 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 19 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 20 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |
| 21 | He has been known to buy entire collections that please him , as he did some time ago with the modern Italian co-operative Memphis , or more recently with the furniture designer André Dubreuil . |
| 22 | Has he asked you for permission to make a statement to the House on the initiative or , has he , as he did last week when he refused to make a statement to the House on the Welsh business rate , copped out once again ? |