Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [adv] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | No envelopes that I had brought were suitable , so that night I made several of them , as I regularly did , strengthening ordinary ones with sticky tape , and making reusable fasteners out of wire from abandoned tyres . |
| 2 | ‘ He has lately recovered his childhood faith , ’ Everard explained , ‘ as I also did some years ago . ’ |
| 3 | It took a great deal of effort not to wriggle about as much as I normally did , but I feared him panicking more than the physical discomfort . |
| 4 | To go out at midnight in heavy rain or frost , as I sometimes did , when I would be working next morning and when I had hardly seen my wife all day , almost broke me . |
| 5 | First , never drink and gamble ; secondly , never drink and gamble with strangers ; thirdly , if you do fall into temptation , as I sometimes did , make sure you know where the wine comes from . |
| 6 | Perhaps , if things improve they will go into industry , as I once did . |
| 7 | She looked at her hands , knobbling with rheumatism , " I ca n't use 'em as I once did . " |
| 8 | I could walk as fast as I ever did but I tended to roll my shoulders and turn my three-toed foot in as I did so . |
| 9 | That was not really convenient for me as I often did not know at what time I would return from saying Mass in the outstations . |
| 10 | When I was small , if I happened to say ‘ It 's not fair ’ , as I often did , then my mother 's stock reply was , ‘ No , and it wo n't be till next October . ’ |
| 11 | Then , as I often did when I was alone at sea , I began to recite Shakespeare . |
| 12 | When I listened though , as I often did when my curiosity over-ran my actions , he was different from the rest . |
| 13 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 14 | Finally , a very sweet nurse came along and asked what I was doing there , as I obviously did not belong . ’ |
| 15 | As you probably did yourself . |
| 16 | She was an attractive and popular figure with her large blue eyes and shock of thick hair , bobbed in the fashion she had set , as she also did that of using her surname alone . |
| 17 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 18 | Hayley 's real father had turned up , demanding to take her home with him , and there were tears and tantrums from Hayley , who declared , as she frequently did , that she 'd throw herself out of the window . |
| 19 | When Endill asked his mother about him she did not say much and never smiled as she normally did . |
| 20 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
| 21 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 22 | In the bedroom above she dropped the linen onto a chair ; then , going to the window , she stood looking out , as she usually did , over the chimney pots towards the river . |
| 23 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 24 | Refusing to cower behind the racks as she usually did , she walked boldly along the centre aisle . |
| 25 | She refused , as she usually did . |
| 26 | Mrs Redmond called to see Julia one afternoon as she sometimes did now and Julia told her of the conversation about mourning . |
| 27 | It was all very well for Connie to say , as she sometimes did , that Scarlet 's therapist might know all there was to know about psychoanalysis but clearly knew sod-all about human nature . |
| 28 | ‘ Just follow your little heart , ’ she commented ; as she ever did in matters of important self-expression . ) |
| 29 | When she wrote home , as she now did regularly , she wrote believing herself to be very contented . |
| 30 | When they 'd gone Dee-Dee came in , as she often did now , to drink coffee over the sorted clippings . |