Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] as [pron] do [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I have never felt so unhappy in my life as I did on that short airlift to Dibrugarh , leaving Burma almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese , and knowing how many hundreds of people were stranded on the railway line below Myitkyina .
2 I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment .
3 Such variation reflects as much on the Authority 's style and the quality of its thinking as it does on the heads , and there is a clear need for much greater dialogue between the two levels .
4 Japanese fashion-lovers take as much care of their underwear as they do of their overwear .
5 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 .
6 On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind .
7 Both of these are of course present in Schleiermacher too ; but they do not supply the framework of his system as they do for Ritschl .
8 do not harden your heart as you did at Meribah …
9 It looks as good inside your home as it does in the garden .
10 So do you pay as much attention to your body as you do to your face ?
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