Example sentences of "as i do [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My son , aged four , believes in God and Jesus , as I did as a child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I wondered if he felt as strongly about me as I did about him . |
| 4 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |
| 5 | I 'm not eating half as much as I did on camp and I 'm starving . ’ |
| 6 | I have never felt so unhappy in my life as I did on that short airlift to Dibrugarh , leaving Burma almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese , and knowing how many hundreds of people were stranded on the railway line below Myitkyina . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 8 | ‘ Grown myself a moustache , used hair colourant on it — as I did on my hair . |
| 9 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 10 | Perhaps they were gazing up here quite absently and speculatively , as I did on Monday . |
| 11 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 12 | There are a number of ways to get a game abandoned , although streaking across the pitch in only your underpants , as I did at Lake Town last season , is perhaps not the best . |
| 13 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 14 | Marje adds : ‘ If you live a double life of lies and deception as I did for years and years , you need to speak about it eventually . |
| 15 | In order to believe in the Devil we must rid ourselves of unhelpful images of him ( though we do not need to wax philosophical about him as I did for the doubting lady ! ) . |
| 16 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 17 | A Plymouth dockyard labourer 's daughter lived across the road ‘ as much with grandma as I did with mother . |
| 18 | But I should say that if I had to buy them , I would do as I did with the ones I have — buy from a breeder . |
| 19 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 20 | Inevitably , the image of his father , the image of his family , the image of his class , were at the forefront of this searing reappraisal : When my father was fifteen years old , he did not go for holidays on beaches , as I did with his money . |
| 21 | I do n't same as I did with them . |
| 22 | ‘ I told her , sir , coming as I did from the market where the news was fresh and thinking … ’ |
| 23 | Doing a lot of hitch-hiking , as I did from my parents ' house in Wales to London , I met many different people . |
| 24 | McManus , who now faces Thailand 's James Wattana in tomorrow 's semi-final , said : ‘ If I play as well as I did against Stephen , there 's no reason why I ca n't go on to win . |
| 25 | Which means of course if you work for Trading Standards , as I did until very recently if you work for Trading Standards you tend to get a rather jaundiced view of shopping . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 … . |
| 27 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 28 | Am I just once again to write , as I did in 1916 , a book of amiable daydreams , which everyone will ignore ? |
| 29 | I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days ! |
| 30 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |