Example sentences of "as i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | To suggest , as I do , that Georges Braque is the greatest living painter is to remind a contemporary audience , fed to satiety on brilliant innovation , frenzied novelty and every sort of spontaneous expression , that , after all , permanence , grandeur , deliberation , lucidity and calm are paramount virtues of the art of painting … |
| 2 | I learnt an enormous amount and felt then as I do now that there really is n't enough training . |
| 3 | Though there is a good deal there which I found deeply offensive , he wrote , as you must have realized when you sent me the stuff , though , knowing you as I do , I suspect it may not even have crossed your mind , anyway , to be brief , I have , of course , put my feelings to one side and decided to honour the integrity of . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't say as I do , ’ he said . |
| 5 | No ’ — he forestalled Cameron 's objection — ‘ you know as well as I do , Angus , the Duke is daft but he is clever , and he has an entry to every house from Atholl to Dunkeld . |
| 6 | ‘ As long as I do n't have to go past Godfrey . ’ |
| 7 | Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet . |
| 8 | You may think this is way over the top , but by the time he gets there the reader , if he believes ( as I do ) in Keneally 's veracity , will have experienced the same emotion . |
| 9 | I get as big a kick out of watching Seb on the top curve as I do watching a ballet dancer . |
| 10 | No doubt I will shed many tears today , as I do every day . |
| 11 | I do n't care what you 're writing down , just as long as I do n't see it in Republican News . |
| 12 | You know as well as I do that you can not take an animal unless it 's dead and that animal died in the minefield . ’ |
| 13 | Readers may still find , as I do , that some of the economic debate is unintelligible . |
| 14 | My solution , as I do not use a machine for tying my hooks , is to tie reverse knots which do not put undue pressure on the section of line which ends up immediately above the hook . |
| 15 | I 'd appreciate any advice as I do want to help her overcome her fears and enjoy life again . |
| 16 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The Labour Party will have to very quickly make up its mind : does it want a Labour Party clearly led by Neil Kinnock , as I do , or one run by Ron Todd ? |
| 18 | People younger than him , he noted , ‘ not only reject all a priori ideological filters , just as I do , but … refuse to have anything to do with people who use such filters . |
| 19 | If Lindsay had notes — well tough — it 's because he does n't believe as readily as I do what people say to me . |
| 20 | The hall and the gallery and the enormous stained glass windows which faced the door as you came in , and the three reception rooms were ours , and as I suffer from terrible claustrophobia , I thought it was a wonderful place to live although David , who I am sure does n't suffer from claustrophobia as badly as I do , being British and like most British people , would be content to live in smaller environments . |
| 21 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |
| 22 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm not afraid of the future and , knowing you as I do , nor should you be . |
| 24 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 25 | ‘ You know that as well as I do , after the Beach Bombings . ’ |
| 26 | See if you think it 's as peculiar as I do . ’ |
| 27 | But our complicity in taking those dreadful little uppers , of which I thoroughly disapproved , as I do of all narcotic stimulants , drew us closer together , so I submitted to their influence . |
| 28 | I had to water the plants and stock up the fridge as I do n't want to be reported to the NSPCC . |
| 29 | You have to be punished in some way , and you know as well as I do that your case lacks substance . |
| 30 | ‘ You know as well as I do that if she knows about Ari , she 'll want a piece of the action . |