Example sentences of "[noun] as [pron] possibly could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was also determined to spend as much time in dress shops as she possibly could ! |
| 2 | When the time came to close the office , he took great pleasure in posting us all as far away from our homes as he possibly could . |
| 3 | One gets the impression that Braque wanted to show the spectator as much of the figure as he possibly could . |
| 4 | Despite the call of duty , and the deep warm affection she had for her cousin 's little girls , every instinct Laura possessed was overwhelmingly urging her to leave this vehicle ; to put as great a distance between herself and Ross as she possibly could . |
| 5 | She had to get away — had to put as much distance as she possibly could between herself and the man who 'd abused her trust so callously . |
| 6 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 7 | Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks . |
| 8 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 9 | You were covering as many miles a day as you possibly could , depending on the going … . |
| 10 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 11 | I spent as little time with Syl as I possibly could . |
| 12 | She mustered up as much dignity as she possibly could and stood up , not chancing another look at Piers 's face . |
| 13 | When Saturday night eventually came , two swollen-footed , limb-aching , shattered soldiers covered as much of the city as they possibly could in three hours with only five shillings each to spend , a problem that limited their discussions on which pub to select . |
| 14 | Anything else you 'd get as many boxes as you possibly could and carry them out in order to do the job efficiently . |
| 15 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 16 | That is why he spent as much time as he possibly could outside the ring , talking about anything but the council tax . |