Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] he did " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend can not write off the WEU as simply and as simplistically as he did . |
| 3 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 4 | I 'm surprised he stuck to you for as long as he did . ’ |
| 5 | Her pride made her speak as formally as he did and always be the one who moved away first . |
| 6 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 7 | And he had six people to work with who would n't waste time on stupid questions about the baby 's emotional welfare , who saw as clearly as he did the greater fascination in the sheaves of data they had already collected on the child since his birth . |
| 8 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 9 | Yet already , with Benjamin the Silversmith , we have noticed a change : he moved around London as often as he did not because life was proving difficult where he was , but because customers or lodgers might be more easily found just round the everlasting corner . |
| 10 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 11 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 12 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 13 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 14 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 17 | He relaxed his roly-poly figure in the cart and let his piebald pony , who knew the way home as well as he did , trot ahead through the darkness of the berry-lined road . |
| 18 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 19 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 20 | Ever since Cuntona joined scum , all of a sudden he s a class player — despite still not playing as well as he did for Leeds . |
| 21 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 22 | If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly . |
| 23 | She 'd never seen anyone move as fast as he did when he put poor old Dan Pearson on his back . |
| 24 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 25 | She shuddered as convulsively as he did , and became lost in the same giant whirlpool of pleasure . |
| 26 | No one imagined that Mr Bush would intervene as abruptly as he did , or that Mr Kaifu would go off to Palm Springs without so much as a by-your-leave to the party barons . |
| 27 | To involve related professions as closely as he did was an innovation at that time . |