Example sentences of "as well [conj] [pers pn] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was just as well that she did so because Harry appeared at that moment , to lead her out for sherry and soda . |
| 2 | It was just as well that he did n't know my long-term aim was to be a pro golfer . |
| 3 | ‘ I will be more than happy if we play as well as we did against Stockport County , providing we get a little luck . |
| 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 | ‘ If they succeed as well as they did when they 're not trying to kill you , what might n't they achieve if they decide they do want to ? |
| 13 | erm If United can play as well as they did this afternoon and Oldham perform as well as we know they can , we 're in for a really tremendous game of football . |
| 14 | I knew the ground as well as she did , and while she had no reason to suspect my intentions towards her , I had the advantage of knowing , very clearly , her intentions towards me . |
| 15 | Knowing the cat as well as she did , Mildred could see that , despite its size , it was frightened out of its wits . |
| 16 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |
| 17 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 18 | Travis knew it as well as she did . |
| 19 | There was over an hour left when Malcolm came in , and had some of the others defended as well as he did the game might have been saved . |
| 20 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 21 | In some ways , it is quite remarkable that Andrew turned out as well as he did . ’ |
| 22 | Manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ Carlton has n't been playing as well as he did last season . |
| 23 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 24 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 25 | He relaxed his roly-poly figure in the cart and let his piebald pony , who knew the way home as well as he did , trot ahead through the darkness of the berry-lined road . |
| 26 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |
| 27 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 28 | Ever since Cuntona joined scum , all of a sudden he s a class player — despite still not playing as well as he did for Leeds . |
| 29 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 30 | If Jason Peake can regularly play as well as he did on his debut on loan from Filbert Street on Saturday , Pool need to sign him quickly . |