Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speculators tolerated a rough-and-ready existence for several months , dwelling in rude shacks and tents , and subsisting as best they could . |
| 2 | It was by then too late to make for the safety of the mountains , and the scattered groups of jeeps had to hide as best they could at the foot of the escarpment . |
| 3 | Two brothers were reunited amid the misery of a Croatian refugee camp yesterday and celebrated as best they could … by sharing a bowl of scraps . |
| 4 | Hazel and the others followed as best they could , with Pipkin limping and staggering behind , his fear driving him on in spite of the pain in his paw . |
| 5 | Where Markus Stenz led , the orchestra followed as best they could although some wayward ensemble , especially from the woodwind , dulled the edges . |
| 6 | they tried to get the score moving as best they could … but Derbyshire had different ideas … |
| 7 | His followers now escaped as best they could . |
| 8 | Captains had therefore to use their own resources to pay their men and bargain as best they could with the Exchequer ; but there is little evidence that delays in payment became a political issue . |
| 9 | Some fell and were dragged on by their comrades , others had to crawl as best they could , their heads barely emerging from the puffs of dust , across the open space between the Cutcherry and the churchyard wall . |
| 10 | The effect of the war was , as in many other industries , to force government , employers and unions in shipping to face and to solve as best they could , many problems of relationships and jurisdictions which had been simmering , and from time to time erupting , for many years . |
| 11 | By 1960 all Soviet technicians had been recalled , taking their blueprints with them and leaving the factories to be finished as best they could be . |
| 12 | There is no music , only the hoarse , erratic bellow of a kudu horn and the chanting , a strange noise which comes from inside the earth itself , as though the rocks and the soil were singing as best they could . |
| 13 | Some tearful householders whose homes were wrecked just had to cope as best they could . |
| 14 | Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall . |
| 15 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |