Example sentences of "[adv] as i do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 2 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 4 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 5 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 6 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 7 | Especially as I do n't like colour and I only like black and white . |
| 8 | The first month was absolute hell , especially as I did n't have a watch . |
| 9 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 10 | I spent as much time wondering how the dome was held together as I did actually climbing . |
| 11 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 12 | ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground . |
| 13 | ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them . |
| 14 | She relaxed visibly as soon as I did so . |
| 15 | FO Basically I do exactly the same now as I did then . |
| 16 | But I can not abandon my identity now as I did so freely in those days of my youth . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't go to the stationary cupboard quite as often as I did before , ’ says manager of quality and training , Claudia McCabe , one of 1000 managers . |
| 18 | What well mainly what what is the I mean , these thinner ones , presumably they would do the job as well as I do n't know I mean , it 's keeping out What I want to do is to keep out the sun . |
| 19 | But you know as well as I do how banks hate having to call in loans — we 're much happier to keep our customers in business . |
| 20 | You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’ |
| 21 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 22 | I got up quite late today as I do not do anything important and it is my one real chance for a lie-in . |
| 23 | ‘ And when we are married , I 'm sure I can work twice as hard as I do now , and earn more . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've started at the College , ’ he told Bobby Hunt , ‘ — it 's very nice there as I do n't have to do anything : the paintings though are past belief . ’ |
| 25 | I did n't mention it to Kenneth initially as I did n't want to spoil his holiday , but my martyrdom was brief and his subsequent concern touching . |
| 26 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 27 | I did n't ever seem to get the same sort of satisfaction out of getting something to balance properly as I did out of seeing a patient recover , which was something you 'd helped them to do . |