Example sentences of "as [pron] do [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 2 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 3 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 4 | I am instructed to enquire whether you would agree to recommence trading there , as you did six years ago , using the premises as a studio and dark-room , and as a shop for the sale of photographic goods — and occupying the upper floor for domestic purposes . |
| 5 | She took his breath away , as she did most men 's . |
| 6 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
| 7 | One need not come to the same conclusions now as one did two years ago . |
| 8 | We Brits now drink twice as much wine as we did ten years ago the equivalent of half a bottle of wine a week for every man and woman in the country . |
| 9 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 10 | ‘ I must stress that the involvement of armed forces , the police and the voluntary services will cease once the trades unions agree , as they did two weeks ago , to provide normal accident and emergency service ’ . |
| 11 | Incongruous , too , because La Dame de Fer and her redoubtable overseas mouthpiece , British Sources , spoke much as they did six months ago in Madrid when the Berlin Wall stood firm and Alexander Dubcek was still an obscure forestry official . |
| 12 | Thus , Sprinter units working out of Derby depot , covering as they did stopping services on routes spread out as far as Leeds , Manchester , Cambridge , Aberystwyth , Pwllheli , Holyhead , Scarborough , Skegness and Cleethorpes , actually achieved annual mileages in excess of 100,000 miles per year , practically double that achieved by the older DMUs . |
| 13 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 14 | They watched television with pleasure , but treated its political messages with much the same scepticism as they did ordinary speeches and broadcasts : it did not seem that television had greater persuasive power to mould Zuwaya minds than other media . |
| 15 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 16 | Counties such as Lincolnshire , Kent and Buckinghamshire can be expected to drag their feet over comprehensive reforms , as they did 20 years ago . |
| 17 | Cochrane 's ( 1971 ) criticisms still seem as relevant and cogent today as they did 20 years ago , and at last seem to be taken seriously by the medical establishment and health policy- makers . |
| 18 | The trouble is that companies need two to three times as many pay grades as they do working layers , and once they 've established the pay grades , which are easy to describe and set up , they fail to take the next step and set up a different managerial hierarchy based on responsibility rather than salary . |
| 19 | Modern school buildings make as much use as possible of natural light , incorporating as they do large windows . |
| 20 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 21 | Never before , and probably not for a very long time again will it be possible to recreate such an exhibition , containing as it does important paintings from major Western and Russian museums and private collections , as well as outstanding works from circa fifty provincial and specialised museums in the former Soviet Union . |
| 22 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 23 | ‘ Flags & Emblems ’ suggests he could be right , boasting as it does ten numbers that are every bit as abrasive and sharply barbed as their predecessors . |
| 24 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 25 | The Royal Ulster Constabulary is solving twice as many crimes as it did 10 years ago . |
| 26 | There are also links with Nottingham 's twin city Minsk proving that the department still serves the local community as it did 75 years ago . |
| 27 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |
| 28 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 29 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 30 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |