Example sentences of "as i [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 2 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 3 | I am sure that the Minister will be aware — representing a rural area , as I also do — that there is considerable concern about closures and amalgamations that lead to both defendants and witnesses having to travel vast distances . |
| 4 | It is n't always easy for anyone to get to the bottom of every detail of a bill er which refers to earlier legislation and erm er er I 'm sure that my Noble Friend would sympathise anyhow erm er er w with with me insofar as I also do not have the advantage of er legal qualifications which he manages to make up for most adequately . |
| 5 | I will comment , as I repeatedly do , on the determination of everyone in Ulster to end violence and to ensure that they can get back to living normal lives . |
| 6 | Even to play with a pick I would have to do the same thing , like Phil Lynott did , whereas to play with my fingers in a heavy metal kind of way , as I normally do , I have to have the bass quite low or else my wrist gets mangled up and I start having problems with tendonitis . |
| 7 | Determined not to put a foot wrong , let alone go in over the top , as I sometimes do . |
| 8 | Whether you disagree profoundly with his interpretations , as I sometimes do , or take them all for what they are , it is almost impossible to break away from the spell of his playing which is , at very worst , interesting . |
| 9 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 10 | You may think as I often do : has the client never before seen his consumers ? |
| 11 | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , as I often do , Harry still goes and does whatever he wants . |
| 12 | I think about my friend Erin , as I often do . |
| 13 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 14 | One might , as I usually do with one of his novels , quarrel mildly about his formal devices ; but that would be an irrelevant vanity . |
| 15 | I opted for the neckband , as I usually do , because I like to do these double , so if the front bands go on first I have to do two buttonholes on the double fabric of the neckband . |
| 16 | Calming myself I took it page by page , instead of going straight to the Rrap as I usually do . |
| 17 | No , I 'm going to interrupt you as I usually do . |
| 18 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 19 | I begin , as I usually do . |
| 20 | Pei 's generosity with space , the fact that one never feels oppressed by ceilings ( as I always do at Lasdun 's National Theatre ) , reveals him as a distinctive architectural sculptor . |
| 21 | I slightly lengthened my stride , feeling self-conscious as I always do if I find myself marching in step with martial music , when I deliberately break step and try to walk between the beats , as it were , in as unmilitary a way as possible . |
| 22 | ‘ No , I shall do as I always do . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You must take me as you find me ’ means ‘ I 'm going to carry on and behave as I always do even if it does n't suit you . ’ |
| 24 | I passed her the tissues as I always do . |
| 25 | system until we introduce the council tax , but of course I will listen with care to any representations that are made , as I always do . |
| 26 | Adopting , as I respectfully do , that approach to the Convention , the principles governing the duty of the English court to take account of article 10 appear to be as follows : where the law is clear and unambiguous , either stated as the common law or enacted by Parliament , recourse to article 10 is unnecessary and inappropriate . |