Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] can [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lose count of the lengths ; she 's at it for almost an hour , with her mind as empty as she can make it . |
| 2 | ‘ With a strong market leadership position , ’ said Lockett , ‘ we must do as much as we can to maintain it and client care is the most important element of our success . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 4 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 5 | I 've done as much as I can to make it comfortable , but , among other things , it needs a modern bathroom , a new roof and all the windows replaced . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to have a rest now , Fru Møller , and I 'll be down as near to six as I can make it . ’ |
| 7 | As you work through the second phase you will be working out the diet that is as near to perfect as you can get it for your own body . |
| 8 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 9 | For the zig-zag row and the circular rows , the stitch tension is usually as tight as you can make it . |
| 10 | We 'll be available on N T erm I do n't think I can say concurrently with the availability of N T cos A no one knows the availability of N T and secondly there will inevitabl be some lag , but it will be very soon as quick as we can make it after that . |
| 11 | It 'll never be perfect but it can run as smooth as you can get it . |
| 12 | And that 's as good as I can make it , Kirsty . |
| 13 | In all these cases the answer would be , " As good as I can get it . " |
| 14 | When tough new laws are announced , it is usually with the refrain ‘ The innocent have nothing to fear , as long as they can prove it ’ . |
| 15 | But my mum 's pretty good you know what I mean she as long as I can arrange it round her she 'll arrange her arrangements around me sort of thing . |
| 16 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got a bead on him , and as long as I can hold it I 'll have him when he moves . |
| 18 | I 'm not bothered either way as long as I can read it . |
| 19 | As long as you make the point , and and in the as long as the quotes are grammatical , and as long as you can understand it , the the simple thing about any kind of communication is that you should communicate you know rather than you 're not trying to win the Booker Prize , are you , so just as long as you get the information over do n't worry too much about the , the journalism . |
| 20 | I 'll be there as soon after five as I can make it . ’ |
| 21 | What is our work as far as we can prove it today . |
| 22 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 23 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 24 | As near two thirty as I can make it . ’ |
| 25 | Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks . |
| 26 | ‘ I took her to a little friend 's birthday party yesterday — life when you 're almost two has to go on as near to normal as we can make it . |
| 27 | Indeed we sometimes spend a lot of our waking hours making sure that everything is as secure as we can make it . |