Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] as i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you feel as I do that openness is the best policy in these affairs . |
| 3 | I hope you feel as I do , that it now provides a useful description of the contribution Area Staff make to Christian Aid 's overall task — I thought you might wish to retain a copy . |
| 4 | How could a man who feels as I do , who writes what I have written , behave towards a woman — any woman — in ways remotely akin to the ones which have been suggested ? |
| 5 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 6 | And maybe you need to be thirtysomething yourself to feel as I do about these people . |