Example sentences of "as [pron] did [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 2 | And started laughing as soon as I did that started laughing . |
| 3 | But it 's getting easier for me to blend it all now ; I certainly do n't get as stuck as I did four or five months ago . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I therefore extended my area of search slightly and as I did this out popped one of the shop tokens illustrated . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 13 | I always make the statement at the time — as I did last Thursday — based on the information available to me and on the right process for the House for the following week . |
| 14 | I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification . |
| 15 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 16 | See I do n't feel as I did last night but it 's still there , you know I just take some more tablets like , you know . |
| 17 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yeah the actual as you did successful sales course we can note your comments down okay , I 'll give you a set of these now , write the sales person 's name across there and write your comments , criticisms , what was done well , what was done badly , what could be improved on and it 's his role play cycle , give this to the sales person . |
| 20 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
| 21 | ‘ As you did last night ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Will you call me Nico , Caroline , as you did last night ? ’ |
| 23 | People tend to get hold of wrong ideas , just as you did last night . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How could this admirable and poetic man have felt , as she did two or three years ago , that he would rather die ? |
| 26 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 30 | She lifted her head as she did this , and seemed to look straight at him . |