Example sentences of "[adv] much as [pron] could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an analysis of council expenditure , E W Wordley told the FGRA that the majority intended to spend as much as they could on labour ; as a result , bankruptcy was imminent ( SE 27 September 20 ) . |
| 2 | Of course , people would do as much as they could on their own , partly because it was n't easy to send for a vet in a faraway place like Baldersdale , which did n't have many telephones , and partly because of the expense . |
| 3 | It might be a good guess today if I could say that most people either done as much as they could with their model and had this |
| 4 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 5 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 6 | Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food . |
| 7 | I removed as much as I could with my fingers , turned off the lights , added more plants and threw in one of those Nitrasafe bags . |
| 8 | I polished that one as much as I could with erm Brasso |
| 9 | I 've done as much as I could with that one but |
| 10 | I saved up these incidents to amuse Leslie in my letters , and related as much as I could about our domestic and leisure activities . |
| 11 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 12 | I would n't charge I I I 'd try and get as much as I could off him cos he was working . |
| 13 | I did as much as I could for as long as I could . |
| 14 | ‘ I did as much as I could for as long as I could . |
| 15 | yeah I know , but its still very hard work , and I 'm ten years older than he is I , I just did as much as I could for him really , I mean I did more mixing than he did , I did nearly all the mixing |
| 16 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 17 | He told Nikos and Georgiades as much as he could about the current political log-jam , leaving out the Patros bit . |
| 18 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 19 | Used get as much as he could of them , I do n't know was it to keep the the amount of them down or not . |
| 20 | He had learnt as much as he could from the silly young woman teacher . |
| 21 | En route to the train-tube terminal Jaq comm-called Grimm to carry away as much as he could from the hotel suite , settle their account if challenged , and rendezvous at the Tormentum . |
| 22 | By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone . |
| 23 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 24 | She needed to learn as much as she could about this area of mental disturbance . |
| 25 | She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers , which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat , and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt , neither of which sported designer labels . |
| 26 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |