Example sentences of "as [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They buy only records on import from Outer Mongolia and stop playing them as soon as everyone else does ; they refuse to watch films without foreign subtitles , never read hardbacks , and will not enter a club if the general public can also get in . |
| 2 | I wear jeans to university , as everyone else does . |
| 3 | I should n't criticise it as everyone else does , because without the M25 , it would be impossible to get to all of the six clubs that we have built , strung out like pearls , ( or glass beads , my critics would tell you ) around its perimeter . |
| 4 | One is the right to exactly equal treatment , that is , to the same distribution of goods or opportunities as everyone else has . |
| 5 | You have a right to use public areas in the pursuance of your lawful hobby in the same way as everyone else has . |
| 6 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 7 | As everyone now knows , this unique experiment was a success , and mankind obtained a witness of human life on Earth three million years ago . |
| 8 | Mark : " I do believe in God — it makes sense to me as nothing else does . " |
| 9 | There is the thought that this story might fulfil me as nothing ever has done in all my life previous to this . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're safe , so long as nobody else finds out . |
| 11 | They summed up your guitar playing as nobody else has been able to do . ’ |
| 12 | Ye take what ye like as long as nobody else lives on it or uses it . ’ |
| 13 | BUT you can renew a loan by telephone as long as nobody else wants the item . |
| 14 | But , just as nobody actually eats babies , so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against . |
| 15 | Nobody as beautiful as you ever works in this factory . |
| 16 | As she acidly puts it , ‘ the liberation was not intended to liberate ( women ) from anything but their common-sense and their instinct for self-protection ’ . |
| 17 | However , she is quite dolorous , and sighting her , or hearing her crying as she slowly shuffles by , are both very bad omens . |
| 18 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 19 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |
| 20 | You have two wives to keep , the one you are living with here , who is really your mistress , and I believe rather expensive , particularly as she already has a daughter , and your wife proper who will not divorce you and is living in the Argentine with your two children , a boy and a girl . |
| 21 | And if our parliamentary accountability is as important as she frequently claims in this context , why is she reluctant to take part in the debate ? |
| 22 | The old system to which the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) wish to return us was far more unsatisfactory , as she well knows . |
| 23 | As she well knows . |
| 24 | Still , she escapes from the ‘ mad scientist ’ category just as she partly escapes from limiting classification as ( the only ) woman . |
| 25 | As she probably knows , half of all patients are treated as emergency cases , half come from waiting lists . |
| 26 | Angela is planning a traditional wedding but the dresses she had seen were too romantic and frilly , and she was unsure about what to do with her make-up as she normally wears quite strong colours but felt she wanted to tone them down for her wedding day . |
| 27 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |
| 28 | Her ties will remain strong as she still has many family connections . |
| 29 | She took it through to the lounge and laid it on the rug and at first I was amused But I could see all was not well because she sat as she usually does , but for a long time — over half an hour — then she lay down like this and she has n't moved . " |
| 30 | She did n't look quite as natty as she usually does ! |