Example sentences of "[adv] as i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 2 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 3 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 4 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 5 | I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did . |
| 6 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 8 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 9 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 10 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Meaning , I can have my say so long as I do what you tell me ! ’ |
| 12 | Especially as I do n't like colour and I only like black and white . |
| 13 | The first month was absolute hell , especially as I did n't have a watch . |
| 14 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 15 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 16 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 17 | Only in the spring does the waterfall recover , and then it roars with delight at regaining life , just as I did . |
| 18 | I am sure LCCIEB students will experience new horizons , just as I did . |
| 19 | I think he knew , just as I did , that Eric would get back , and he was worried about what would happen . |
| 20 | ‘ She ought to have waited , just as I did . ’ |
| 21 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 22 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 23 | People younger than him , he noted , ‘ not only reject all a priori ideological filters , just as I do , but … refuse to have anything to do with people who use such filters . |
| 24 | ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them . |
| 25 | ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground . |
| 26 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 27 | He has to settle down and marry one day , just as I do , has n't he ? ’ |
| 28 | Admittedly Dawn has been too outspoken , and she 'll have to be told to keep her feelings to herself , just as I do . |
| 29 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 30 | If you manage to take off , follow me and do exactly as I do . |