Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 3 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Meaning , I can have my say so long as I do what you tell me ! ’ |
| 7 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 8 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 9 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 10 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 11 | If you keep listening to the radio , you 'll probably hear any news as quickly as I do . |
| 12 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 13 | The Law Society believes this as strongly as I do . |
| 14 | No ’ — he forestalled Cameron 's objection — ‘ you know as well as I do , Angus , the Duke is daft but he is clever , and he has an entry to every house from Atholl to Dunkeld . |
| 15 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
| 17 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 18 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 19 | ‘ You know that as well as I do , after the Beach Bombings . ’ |
| 20 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 21 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 22 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You know as well as I do ’ |
| 24 | Though , of course , you know that as well as I do ! |
| 25 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 26 | ‘ You know the odds as well as I do . |
| 27 | ‘ Not rubbing anything out — you know as well as I do , you 're not allowed to rub anything out . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |
| 29 | ‘ You know as well as I do , ’ said Loppe , ‘ that when Famagusta surrenders , this island will split into flame like a fireball . |
| 30 | Denis is a professional and knows that as well as I do . ’ |