Example sentences of "as i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 2 | I used my house key , the same as I did yesterday . |
| 3 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 4 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 5 | ‘ They told me that as long as I did not rush back too quickly , I should have another four or five years . |
| 6 | Sir : Did Sarah Helm ( 3 October ) attend the same Society for Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) conference as I did ? |
| 7 | READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did . |
| 8 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 9 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 10 | ‘ He wants me to have really short hair , just as I did 10 years ago . ’ |
| 11 | I caused a lot of hurt to my husband and family when I left them to live with her , but my partner , Kate , felt as strongly about me as I did about her and I know it was the right thing to do . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , such a day , and to stroll along as I did so many times in the old days . |
| 13 | As I 'm sure you 'll understand , when I first came to see this awful situation I was consumed with a feeling of frustration — knowing , as I did then , that it could be some time before we 'd be in a position to intervene . |
| 14 | My son , aged four , believes in God and Jesus , as I did as a child . |
| 15 | I hope he had as good a time as I did . |
| 16 | My two realities were getting this thing done technically to technical excellence , which I was struggling with as I did n't know my stuff so well then , and also , managing to get a good performance out of David . |
| 17 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |
| 18 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 19 | It was quite some time since I had last played and , inhaling huge lungfuls of air as I did so , I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent with my supra-sonic service , my cunning topspins , bottomspins , sidespins , every-this-and-thatspins . |
| 20 | ‘ Things have turned out all right for them , though at the time I felt like you , and thought they ought to have stayed till eighteen , as I did , and the two elder ones did . |
| 21 | As I did not have a woman companion , they tended to ignore me , but I called to one and bought a little bouquet to put in my hotel bedroom 's tooth-glass . |
| 22 | Dana did not shave as often as I did . |
| 23 | But I can not abandon my identity now as I did so freely in those days of my youth . |
| 24 | As long as I did not look at her , Sadie resigned herself to wandering behind me . |
| 25 | Had it been anyone other than Marty , I 'd never have spent every weekend preparing and refining the script , then repeating it as I did . |
| 26 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 27 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 28 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 29 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I told her , sir , coming as I did from the market where the news was fresh and thinking … ’ |