Example sentences of "as i do [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 2 | You are obviously determined to believe that I deliberately and maliciously set out to destroy you , knowing as I did how much you had already been hurt . ’ |
| 3 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 4 | I open the window a crack and breathe in the coldness , as I do when I am running in the evenings . |
| 5 | But you know as well as I do how banks hate having to call in loans — we 're much happier to keep our customers in business . |
| 6 | You know as well as I do how dangerous it is for a woman alone on the roads — any pervert could pick you up ! ’ |