Example sentences of "[adj] as we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates . |
| 2 | Getting there , getting in , and expenses , that 's as much as we could manage . |
| 3 | ‘ Not that we did n't check on Elsie , as much as we could … ’ |
| 4 | Two sergeants and I stayed behind to try to salvage as much as we could of our stores of food . |
| 5 | ‘ A draw was as much as we could have expected . |
| 6 | Fateha : She said find out as much as we could |
| 7 | And we did n't bother , we could n't do anything much for these rabbits and try and kill them you know , as much as we could aye . |
| 8 | She said they had an awfully difficult job and we ought to help them as much as we could . |
| 9 | We designated the areas , we chalked 'em off , we did as much as we could pre-prep . |
| 10 | Yes , quite a lot , well as much as we could |
| 11 | And that we would issue those summary sheets at a staff meeting and we would go through it at a staff meeting and that that , probably that was as much as we could do |
| 12 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 13 | So the Lipsey diagram ( Figure 3.1 ) is as simple as we could plausibly manage , and it is not a definite guide . |
| 14 | As quick as we could . |
| 15 | ‘ On the 7th and 10th of Feb. we recd your Letters of the 25th of Septr and 6th of Oct : They were a source of the highest gratification to us all , but neither Letter was so full or explanatory as we could wish and from the slight mention of Mrs. Gould we are fearful that her health is not much improved . |
| 16 | When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out . |
| 17 | But we 'll need fresh legs on Monday and we tried to protect as many as we could . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 20 | Having released two singles — ‘ June ’ — and ‘ Childhood Revisited ’ — in the late eighties on an independent label — Ashanti recorded a demo containing a song called ‘ Real World ’ , which was despatched to Polygram and , according to Boyd , ‘ within 20 minutes they were prepared to make us an offer which , at the time , was as good as we could get . |
| 21 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 22 | ‘ Results were as good as we could have hoped for given the difficult economic background throughout the year , ’ he said . |
| 23 | As long as we could . |
| 24 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
| 25 | As long as we could stop the fire . |
| 26 | And our best interpretation as far as we could tell from that of course that was that the implied increase in sharing , because sh assumes that households with dwelling was about between four and five times the present sorry nineteen ninety one level share in the county . |
| 27 | ‘ It was as far as we could get , ’ explained Farag , ‘ because then the ghaffir came back . ’ |
| 28 | So this is as big as we could get without it falling apart , so it 's a nice handleable book , though a little heavy . |
| 29 | Er , it 's because we do n't write down the stuff , we 're not as pr , precise as we could be . |
| 30 | ‘ We know that , ’ said Pooley , ‘ and we 've been as thorough as we could be without much hope of finding anything . ’ |