Example sentences of "[adv] as i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 2 | I know that so long as I do n't manage to count up to one hundred before the spasm ceases , I shall live . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't mind what I do so long as I do n't have too many lines to learn . ’ |
| 4 | That 's none of my business so long as I do n't have to break any laws . |
| 5 | I 'm thinking there might be something wrong with my plan to wait as I close my eyes ( only to rest them ) , but even as I yawn and put my hands into my armpits I think a spot of rest is n't such a bad idea so long as I do n't fall asleep . |
| 6 | ‘ He has enough sauce for a king 's fool , but impudence I can stomach so long as I do n't have to ride something that big on my own . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Meaning , I can have my say so long as I do what you tell me ! ’ |
| 8 | Especially as I do n't like colour and I only like black and white . |
| 9 | The message would be : Do as I preach , not as I do . |
| 10 | Otherwise , it would be a case of ‘ Do as I say , not as I do . ’ |
| 11 | Much as I would like to assist the hon. Gentleman , I can not as I do not accept that transport for students at boards of management colleges should remain with education authorities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ How did people look after the sick and helpless ? ’ — ‘ Just as I do nowadays : I collect money from the people , and I give it to them . |
| 14 | ( I do not pretend to understand precisely how this occurs , just as I do not ‘ understand ’ why an apple falls to the ground . |
| 15 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 16 | He has to settle down and marry one day , just as I do , has n't he ? ’ |
| 17 | Admittedly Dawn has been too outspoken , and she 'll have to be told to keep her feelings to herself , just as I do . |
| 18 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 19 | If you manage to take off , follow me and do exactly as I do . |
| 20 | Soon as I do , I 'll call again and you can pass it along to Joe . |
| 21 | But we 'll do our best to find out , and I 'll let you know as soon as I do . |
| 22 | How can I set it so that , soon as I do file retrieve , it lists the files from that directory ? |
| 23 | If you keep listening to the radio , you 'll probably hear any news as quickly as I do . |
| 24 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You know the rules as well as I do . ’ |
| 28 | In any case , you know as well as I do that the MDs are always American . ’ |
| 29 | And you know why we 're here as well as I do . |
| 30 | ‘ You know that as well as I do , after the Beach Bombings . ’ |