Example sentences of "as i [vb past] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The regiment saw an exhibition of my work and they commissioned it — which was very brave of them , in a way , as I 'd done very little before that . ’ |
| 2 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 3 | This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university . |
| 4 | Just as I had done before , I stumped around Clonmacnoise , surveying each ruined building or ancient cross as I came to it . |
| 5 | So I went by coach to the old town , as I had done so many times before , and walked to the forge . |
| 6 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 7 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |