Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 2 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 3 | Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Arthropod burrows do not stain as they do not normally have mucoid linings . |
| 6 | Hash coding methods ( section 3.2.6 ) were also not implemented as they do not allow for the study of sub-word letter sequences . |
| 7 | ‘ 1 just lived as they did and watched how they groomed themselves without any cosmetic aids . |