Example sentences of "[adj] as you [vb mod] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 2 | Us going in on foot and then the equipment being airlifted in is about as arsy-versy as you can get . |
| 3 | The reel line should be as light as you can get away with ; perhaps as low as 6lb in open water but 8lb is more sensible , specially in the new extra thin nylons . |
| 4 | It was about as spontaneous as you can get . ’ |
| 5 | It was about as spontaneous as you can get . ’ |
| 6 | Videodrome , in which sleazy TV programmer James Woods developed a VCR slot in his stomach , was about as Burroughsian as you can get . |
| 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 | It 'll never be perfect but it can run as smooth as you can get it . |
| 9 | The king prawns ( £11.95 ) are about as elaborate as you 'll get : four giants climbing a stylish mound of nutty black pasta interleaved with strips of courgette and carrot . |
| 10 | Output is very good , and as speedy as you will get from a 6ppm laser printer . |
| 11 | It 's a registered company , as capitalist as you can get . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm as good as you 'll get , I can tell you . |
| 13 | Wayne 's as good as you 'll get , though . ’ |
| 14 | As long as you can get round , you do n't have to be brilliant . ’ |
| 15 | All these outside activities are fine , as long as you can get to them . |
| 16 | ‘ Doing English is terribly useful for a writer as long as you can get rid of the inhibitions from reading other people 's wonderful work . |
| 17 | So your diagram will get very messy , it does n't have to all fit together , as long as you can get all the main points of what 's happening . |
| 18 | You actually , if they do n't do the r if they do n't actually put anything down then you ca n't conjure it out of nothing but as long as you can get the benefit of the doubt then you 'll prob y'know we 'll give it to you . |
| 19 | Yeah well that 's not so bad as long as you can get her down at a reasonable hour and get to sleep . |
| 20 | as long as you can get out of it . |
| 21 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , Keith 's favourite fare is about as plain as you can get . |
| 23 | This is as far as you can get from Cupitt 's picture of a reactionary , static super-tyrant [ in his Taking Leave of God ] always making sure the universe remains the same and conforms to the old unchanging laws . |
| 24 | and depending on whether they ca n't have an odd or even amount forty eight to the Drove which is as far as , if you work at , that 's as far as you can get in the morning and get off and walk through . |
| 25 | But she has eased away and stands right in front of me , as close as you can get without touching , and her teeth are clenched and she almost glares into my face and her fist punches against my stomach as she says , ‘ Listen , you , ’ like it really hurts her . |
| 26 | There 's an old saying that there 's not such thing as a free lunch , but this is about as close as you can get . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The house band and the musical instruments he gathers together here — drawn variously from the ranks of primitive innovator Harry Partch and his disciple Tom Waits — are as far from normal as you can get , as far from easy listening as you could be and go right to the psychic core of the Mingus muse . |
| 29 | Stomping around the 40-odd screens that make up the playing area , solving puzzles and avoiding the numerous nasties , is as absorbing as you can get for four pounds . |
| 30 | Rich as you can get ! |