Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | As little as she did to him , Iago thought , for now that he was to have half his money back , that he had staked on her ennoblement and his grandchild 's inheritance , he scarcely noticed her . |
| 2 | ‘ My main aim when writing my essay ‘ Thoughtless ’ was to try to convey my exact feelings at that particular moment : to make the reader feel as guilty as I did . |
| 3 | I said smiling , ‘ If you always look as fabulous as you did on Thursday when you visit him I would n't bet on that reaction . |
| 4 | Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ? |
| 5 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 6 | It looked as old as he did . |
| 7 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 8 | But what she needed to hear from him was that he found Muriel as off-putting as she did : he certainly did n't like her , Alice knew that . |
| 9 | The Calvinists detested the Lutherans almost as much as they did the Catholics but , as Wedgewood has observed : ‘ The fundamental issue was between revealed and rationalised belief . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think they meant to hurt him as much as they did . ’ |
| 11 | The Puritans frowned on the adorning of wells and springs as much as they did on adorning maypoles , and the tradition of decorating wells with flowers and green branches at the spring festivals , or on the feast of the patron saint of the well , died out . |
| 12 | I mean they certainly rationalize the c the number of competencies and made them stopped du hopefully they do n't duplicate e one another as much as they did |
| 13 | Malcolm and Judy Carvell would like to thank all their friends for the wonderful surprise party arranged for their return from Australia , especially Millie , Wendy , Debbie and Olga , and hope everyone enjoyed the evening as much as they did . |
| 14 | You 'd think the Roadrunners friends would n't smoke as much as they did . |
| 15 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 16 | We hope you enjoyed the music as much as we did . |
| 17 | The Ukrainians hated the Jews as much as we did . |
| 18 | It did not reassure his European allies as much as it did him that their continued existence , as sitting targets in any exchange of fire , depended on his skills as a bluffer . |
| 19 | But the minimal point , that men did not act without taking women 's opinions into account , surely holds for quarrels as much as it did for decisions about education , and for the nineteenth as much as the twentieth century . |
| 20 | You body wo n't turn as much as it did before , you get tired more quickly , you 're less able to concentrate for long periods and have to allow for more errors . |
| 21 | The reason for this is that the money you receive back at the end of the year will not go as far or buy as much as it did 12 months earlier . |
| 22 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is conceded by the representatives of the parties to this appeal that an order made in the terms made by the justices was not open to them in as much as it did not impinge upon the parental responsibility of the parent concerned and impinged only upon contact between the parents themselves . |
| 24 | It threatened him as much as it did his victim . |
| 25 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 26 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 27 | How dared he ? she mourned as she sank down on her bed and gasped for breath , and knew then that Naylor Massingham 's low opinion of her would n't hurt anywhere near as much as it did , had she not just realised that she was desperately in love with him ! |
| 28 | Was n't bad play back when I fi oh it 's not not doing as much as it did before now ! |
| 29 | I wanted you to make it to that goddamned fourteenth floor just as much as you did ! |
| 30 | I 'm not eating half as much as I did on camp and I 'm starving . ’ |