Example sentences of "[adv] well [subord] [pron] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |
| 3 | Those who advised the hon. Gentleman 's constituent no doubt knew the circumstances of that locality far better than I do . |
| 4 | Believing that people were always like we are , they just did n't understand themselves as well as we do , leads to dangerous historical inaccuracies . |
| 5 | He knows as well as we do that there is no guarantee that all the purchases will be made by buy-out teams which , as he said , may reasonably not be expected to reduce the quality of their pension schemes . |
| 6 | The BBC believe that no one does sport as well as they do — and they may be right . |
| 7 | There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’ |
| 8 | Our hospitals are so short of cash thanks to the shortsightedness of the Government that it 's a wonder hospitals function as well as they do . |
| 9 | They do n't , and wo n't , know that he talks Greek as well as they do . |
| 10 | I think they 're under a great pressure and you know th I think it 's erm you know , quite amazing really , that people survive as well as they do , given the pressures they 're that they are under . |
| 11 | They believe that everyone should write as they do : not as well as they do , of course , but in the same fashion . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't be so soft , mam , he 's not one of us , I know that as well as you do . ’ |
| 13 | I know you never considered Madeleine was the right girl for me and no one in this whole world knows me as well as you do , so I ca n't ignore your opinion , even though I 'd like to . |
| 14 | Barry leant forward and whispered conspiratorially , his breath smelling of mint , ‘ Look , Sergeant , we know as well as you do that Parkin was having it away with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 15 | Nobody speaks as well as you do . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't think Hugo or Georgina would do the job as well as you do . |
| 17 | I reckon I know where he is as well as you do , and I might have to say . |
| 18 | It would be hard to justify living as well as you do while paying only a pittance for the privilege . ’ |
| 19 | No ’ — he forestalled Cameron 's objection — ‘ you know as well as I do , Angus , the Duke is daft but he is clever , and he has an entry to every house from Atholl to Dunkeld . |
| 20 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
| 22 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 23 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 24 | ‘ You know that as well as I do , after the Beach Bombings . ’ |
| 25 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 26 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |
| 27 | You know as well as I do that we can too easily by intonation or facial expression or ( the prose equivalent of those signals ) by the precise positioning of a single word in the surrounding thicket of language make the simple statement ‘ I love you ’ mean ‘ I own you , despise you , exploit , deceive or hate you ’ just as the equally plain ‘ I hate you ’ can be picked up as ‘ I fear , envy , respect , despise , own , exploit , deceive or love you , love , love you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You know as well as I do ’ |
| 29 | Though , of course , you know that as well as I do ! |
| 30 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |