Example sentences of "[noun] as i do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wept and I hugged my father and I even hugged Diggs , smelling his hard-blue uniform fabric as I did so and almost feeling him melt and believe me . |
| 2 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 3 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 4 | " I always obey my father without question as I did today , and all I ask is that you help me to continue to do that . " |
| 5 | The juniors were very earnest and keen cricketers and I always found umpiring a ticklish business as I do not know the rules . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I am enjoying it although it is difficult for me with the customers as I do n't know the shop . ’ |
| 7 | Because we had all come from such different backgrounds , and were individuals bound together only by circumstance , I felt it was impossible to criticise their actions as I did n't fully understand their motivations . |
| 8 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 9 | My Lords if this bill had been introduced by a government of a different political persuasion to the present one , I would of course have spoken in precisely the same terms as I do today and I believe that in circumstances of that sort , the overwhelming majority of this House would have taken precisely the same view . |
| 10 | I had to water the plants and stock up the fridge as I do n't want to be reported to the NSPCC . |
| 11 | It would be hypocritical to describe myself as this new creature as I did no make a conscious effort to share our son on a 50/50 basis . |
| 12 | I 've recommended your diet to various patients as I do n't see how anyone can fail to benefit from a diet low in fat . |
| 13 | I would however I I with great trepidation as I do n't think I 've ever dared do it before , er is try to actually clarify the thoughts of my leader erm it is not erm , have I your permission erm I I I feel I feel he may , I feel that |
| 14 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 15 | It was quite some time since I had last played and , inhaling huge lungfuls of air as I did so , I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent with my supra-sonic service , my cunning topspins , bottomspins , sidespins , every-this-and-thatspins . |
| 16 | I held the leg to the can and took the lid away , sliding the leg over the hole as I did so . |
| 17 | I was n't actually pleased with Zak as I did n't want to risk being identified as an actor , but that , I supposed , would be a great deal better than the truth . |
| 18 | My worst country I think would be New Zealand as I do n't remember any of the country and it would appear to me a complete stranger if I moved there . |
| 19 | I could n't see Emily 's expression as I did so . |
| 20 | I prescribed Argenticum Nitricum 6x in a 5ml dropper bottle as I did n't have it in LM . |
| 21 | The smell of burning plastic stayed in my nose and the bright glare of the burning mixture danced in my eyes as I hurried to the next hole , glancing at my watch as I did so . |
| 22 | I 've no excuse as I do n't drink , and before you start ‘ an Irishman who does n't drink ’ , there are a few of us around , Declan speak up . |
| 23 | I stamp my foot as I do n't want claw scrape-marks on my flesh and they convulse into defensive irate yodelling . |
| 24 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 25 | Can you shed any light on these deaths as I do n't want to get any more fish if the same thing is likely to happen again . |
| 26 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |