Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] do [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her success , Buchi Emecheta still feels about this country much as she did when she first arrived 30 years ago , on a grey March morning in Liverpool . |
| 2 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 3 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 4 | The blue-greens , therefore , flourish uncropped just as they did when they were the most advanced form of life anywhere in the world . |
| 5 | It is not possible , therefore , for there to be beings who behave just as we do but lack mental states such as pain . |
| 6 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 7 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 8 | The ground floor consisted of a key-cutter 's stall and some small shops , just as it did when Abu Khadra knew it . |
| 9 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 10 | The ‘ angel of the Lord ’ calls from heaven , just as he did when Ishmael was so near death . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State for Education and Science sits on the Treasury Bench , treating us over this Bill just as he did when he was Secretary of State for Health . |
| 12 | Evans made the saving tackle , just as he did when Tony Stanger , having barn-stormed out of Wayne Proctor 's tackle , threatened to bring the house down in a move created by Craig Chalmers ' adroit collection of Mike Rayer 's kick , the irrepressible Armstrong arcing out of harm 's way on a touchline blast and the thumping support of Cronin and Kenny Milne ( one tighthead to the good ) . |
| 13 | They would be cooked into a greasy stew with vegetables and served up looking exactly as they did when they were raw : pale and nauseatingly realistic , with the toes and claws intact . |
| 14 | She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did except that when he had given two low bows she did ‘ two quick bobs ’ . |
| 15 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 16 | Fucking as I did that me whole fucking foot went . |
| 17 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 18 | Her pride made her speak as formally as he did and always be the one who moved away first . |
| 19 | But does it live self-consciously , or blithely as it did when I was a child ? |
| 20 | we had the ch young children then so that erm all in all I am not sorry that things turned out as they did because erm as luck would have it , you know , |
| 21 | ‘ If they succeed as well as they did when they 're not trying to kill you , what might n't they achieve if they decide they do want to ? |
| 22 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 23 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 24 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 25 | You know as well as I do that the Wharfmasters are living off the fat of the land on their company profits , but how are the dockers expected to support their wives and kids on seventy-two shillings and sixpence a week ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 27 | You know that as well as I do and those people do n't seem to be given the encouragement to move on to another profession . |
| 28 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 29 | does n't quite understand it as well as you do and you 're trying to explain it to him . |
| 30 | The critics went on praising these qualities but even as they did so they began to have quite serious reservations . |