Example sentences of "[noun prp] as [pron] did [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 2 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 3 | At least this time they do not threaten to stone Moses as they did in Exodus 17 . |
| 4 | Dusty Hare , true , played as well for England as he did for his club , and deserved to win even more than his 25 caps . |
| 5 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 8 | Rainey 's YZR meanwhile looked as rideable as ever and he no longer needs to broadside his Dunlops as he did in 1989 . |
| 9 | However , by 1984 a stream of continental ecologists were visiting FoE 's headquarters and appearing at conferences to remark that , so far as they were concerned , the trees looked much the same in Britain as they did in West Germany . |
| 10 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 11 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |
| 12 | Daly was attempting to also win a double championship after winning the fours title with his father earlier today but he did n't show the same consistency against Nolan as he did in yesterday 's semi-final when he beat NIBA champion Martin McHugh from Carrickfergus 21-10 . |
| 13 | ENGLAND suffered the same fate in the second Test with Pakistan in Lahore as they did in the first , losing heavily . |
| 14 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 15 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 16 | The Unilever product cost twice as much per ounce in Barbados as it did in England , and by driving out cheaper local alternatives the end result for the lower income consumer in Barbados was a product that was too expensive , too well-packaged and often surplus to requirements . |
| 17 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |