Example sentences of "as [pers pn] do in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 2 | I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days ! |
| 3 | And take another tip from me : have your locked-room mystery as a side-issue to your main story as I did in The Perfect Murder , my first Ghote book . |
| 4 | And I think he quote those , or they did n't quote them in much , as much detail as I did in the lectures . |
| 5 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 6 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 7 | Few women manage to look as good as you do in the mornings , Fran ! ’ |
| 8 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 9 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 10 | Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books . |
| 11 | Henry was almost certainly the victim of an ayah who , in the interests of peace and quiet , fed the child opium ; in any case , the mother had no cause to blame herself , as she did in the following verses : |
| 12 | Monique Javer , the American-born former US Collegiate Champion who wears the GB vest with such pride and always plays her best for her country as she did in the European Cup in 1991 , will be the undisputed British No. 1 woman player by the end of the year . |
| 13 | Russians adopted the orthodox spirituality of the Greeks and it is interesting that , even after decades of Soviet oppression , they do not have the same problems about the reality they call ‘ God ’ as we do in the West , where Christians always behaved as though God could be discussed like any other metaphysical entity . |
| 14 | Among no other peoples in the New World do we find , as we do in the realm of the Incas , a slow and gradual absorption of the individual by the state . |
| 15 | ‘ What we 've done , in reappraising policies in light of values , is to see our task not as we did in the past , as the relief of poverty or the advancement of equality , but as giving individuals the opportunity to realise their potential to the full , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Next , mark the outline of the board onto the film and then lay down the positions of the copper pads to act as a reference , just as we did in the ‘ direct etch ’ method last month . |
| 17 | Is that what democracy has come to in this country , with the democratically elected Government refusing to listen to the democratically elected Opposition — who will be unable to reveal the flaws in the council tax as we did in the case of the poll tax , and which were soon clear for all to see ? |
| 18 | As we did in the example before Now there 's a bit of erm recreational or diversional mathematics coming up which you do n't have to understand but for those of you who are keen on it , it 's there . |
| 19 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 20 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 21 | Shafts of sunlight probe down into secret nooks and woodland hollows , just as they did in the wintry days to frustrate the birds in their efforts to conceal nests . |
| 22 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
| 23 | In the main , most hotels seem happy to let their concierges work the system to their advantage , providing their more entrepreneurial traits do not get the better of them , as they did in the case of those at the Heathrow Penta . |
| 24 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 25 | As fossil fuels become more difficult to recover from the earth 's crust , and supplies diminish , prices will shoot sky high , just as they did in the oil crisis of 1973 . |
| 26 | Some are dancing on their own , or in twos or threes , as they did in the moonlight . |
| 27 | However , with Britain deep in recession and more than three million unemployed , some people doubt if the firemen can carry the weight of public sympathy as they did in the 1970s . |
| 28 | Highly suspicious of Japan 's motives , the students referred to their militarism and ability to bring China to its knees as they did in the 1930s . |
| 29 | But again they picked a team of boys , as they did in the last two World Cups . |
| 30 | Often , of course , all these motives coexisted , as they did in the erection of the magnificent Holy Trinity Church at Long Melford in Suffolk . |