Example sentences of "as he did [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 2 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 3 | He hated pettiness as much as he did superficial quotation . |
| 4 | The sundial was a small object and , once the Earl had detached it ( as he did many years earlier ) from its pedestal , it ceased to be part of the realty . |
| 5 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 6 | She did not speak — she knew better — but walked into the kitchen , thinking furiously , among other things , that her treasure had not looked so happy and fulfilled for years as he did sitting opposite to his American servant girl — and what could that mean , and did she approve ? |
| 7 | He has been known to buy entire collections that please him , as he did some time ago with the modern Italian co-operative Memphis , or more recently with the furniture designer André Dubreuil . |
| 8 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 9 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 10 | Has he asked you for permission to make a statement to the House on the initiative or , has he , as he did last week when he refused to make a statement to the House on the Welsh business rate , copped out once again ? |
| 11 | He had watched the Rolls Royce pull up as he did most mornings . |