Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not see how I can answer the question as I could not see properly the document that the hon. Member was waving . |
| 2 | Piggy would almost definitely have saved the boys as he could have held on to their love for civilisation by telling them his stories about his auntie , as both his parents were dead . |
| 3 | If the birds do peck through the foil bottle tops , doctors warn against drinking the milk as it could be contaminated with the bug . |
| 4 | Everything that terrible man laid in the way between them was a test or a trap , and all his will was bent to break the son as he could not break the father . |
| 5 | Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC . |