Example sentences of "[pers pn] as i do " in BNC.
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1 | I 've had as much pleasure raising you as I did screwing your clapped-out tart of a mother . |
2 | Matey will be back soon , and — oh , what would she say to me for seducing you as I did ? |
3 | I really should n't have teased you as I did . |
4 | Let me love you as I did before . |
5 | I do n't know how I had the nerve to speak to you as I did — to turn you away when you were being so nice and so good . |
6 | I was crass and thoughtless to spring it on you as I did . |
7 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
8 | I 'm not afraid of the future and , knowing you as I do , nor should you be . |
9 | " I could never feel about you as I do about Horatia . |
10 | Even if I did n't love you as I do , I know my duty . |
11 | I dare say , though , knowing you as I do , that it 's only because you 've thought up some other diabolical vengeance to inflict on me . ’ |
12 | ‘ The fact that , knowing you as I do , knowing what you have deliberately done , I still find you attractive . ’ |
13 | ‘ You can carry on doing my washing , if that will please you — and knowing you as I do , I do n't doubt you 'll be in here at least once or twice a week clearing things up and telling me what a mess I 'm living in — just as you do now . |
14 | I 'm following you as I do n't know the words . |
15 | ‘ You will grow to know her and love her as I do , ’ their father took the woman 's hand and she smiled up at him . |
16 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |
17 | I will have to be a bit canny with him as I do n't expect he will be very well handicapped . ’ |
18 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
19 | I knew that she did n't believe in him as I did because in that case I would have recognised her as I had recognised Mother Joseph , who inhabited a territory which I had visited . |
20 | A late sign of sanity , in my view , if you do it as I do it , silently , the lips entirely still , the net curtains drawn . |
21 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ I would have to think very seriously about it as I do not think Dr Clarke 's views should be given air time . ’ |
22 | Had it been anyone other than Marty , I 'd never have spent every weekend preparing and refining the script , then repeating it as I did . |
23 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
24 | ‘ Or perhaps others did n't feel they could give in to it as I did . ’ |
25 | ‘ No , and I doubt very much that she did , otherwise I would n't have left it as I did . |
26 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
27 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
28 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
29 | He cared for me , he loved me as I did him . |
30 | " I know you do n't feel about me as I do about you , but that does n't matter . " |