Example sentences of "as [pers pn] do [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 2 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 3 | It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning : when one encounters them , one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness . |
| 4 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 5 | Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’ |
| 6 | You know as well as I do that art and commerce have walked hand in hand since at least the Renaissance . ’ |
| 7 | You know as well as I do that Rudolfo 's the only one involved who has a house up there . |
| 8 | I 'm sure you feel as I do that openness is the best policy in these affairs . |
| 9 | Barry leant forward and whispered conspiratorially , his breath smelling of mint , ‘ Look , Sergeant , we know as well as you do that Parkin was having it away with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 10 | So I 'd like you to , as you did this morning please , move your chairs all round , close the blinds , and er , it 's the , the second video of the day . |
| 11 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 12 | However , that morning she had found herself preparing the children 's sandwiches for school — as she did each day — by buttering newspaper instead of the bread . |
| 13 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 14 | She took his breath away , as she did most men 's . |
| 15 | We often make a careful list which we check off as we do each job . |
| 16 | ‘ Various Arias are my ‘ second string ’ choice , and then there are always situations where a P-bass sound is perfect , particularly with Brian , as we do some Queen songs and that 's their bass sound . |
| 17 | The second of our problems had to be settled either over a table or in Court so it certainly was not acceptable to let 1,000 people in and hold them to ransom , as they did that night . |
| 18 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 19 | The one thing that seems to be identified by members of the public er when they come here and address present erm petitions to us as they did this morning er they want in most parts , in Hertfordshire . |
| 20 | Kenneth , Mary and the boys had come holidaying to the Hebrides , as they did most years . |
| 21 | There , tiger sharks have gathered , as they do each year awaiting this sudden abundance of food , and they rise with their jaws agape to seize them . |
| 22 | If this is accepted then odours per se , destroying as they do any feeling of well-being , the enjoyment of food and home , are prejudicial to health and adequate legal measures ought to be available to ensure their control . |
| 23 | Any festival would be proud of a comment such as that above , showing as it does that Nikolai Demidenko 's first great success in the West was with us . |
| 24 | Less good news is that , when demand increases , as it does each year , standards of admission inevitably rise . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 27 | It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend . |
| 28 | ‘ They know as he does that 75pc of the cigarettes manufactured in Darlington go abroad . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |