Example sentences of "[det] as [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought the kids Coca-Cola , Mr Feather , as much as they could drink . |
| 2 | Well they they were all no well you could maybe aye they help aye but er usually they had as much as they could do themselves you see . |
| 3 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 4 | Getting there , getting in , and expenses , that 's as much as we could manage . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ A draw was as much as we could have expected . |
| 7 | Spotting a store that is not selling as much as it could sell is easy . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 9 | He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage . |
| 10 | They had known each other for some considerable time and Frick trusted Schiller as much as he could trust any man . |
| 11 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 12 | He wanted , from his own point of view , as much as he could get of the best of both worlds . |
| 13 | It was as much as I could do not to join in . |
| 14 | As he tottered back to his seat it was as much as I could do not to applaud . |
| 15 | As much as I could do south of the equator |
| 16 | As I rummaged through the chest , gathering up as much as I could carry without dropping any , I found knitted scarves , blankets , gloves , socks and all sorts of garments of varying sizes . |
| 17 | It 's as much as I could get so quickly . |
| 18 | It 's only a tiny little dinghy , two people in there is about as much as you could manage . |
| 19 | His detached look at the phenomenon and at his feelings at the proximity of such a western icon were as much as you could expect . |
| 20 | Noting the somewhat limited kinds of talk generated , the teacher commented that this no doubt reflected the limitations of the activities themselves : ‘ That 's about as much as you could expect to get out of them . ’ |
| 21 | Each summer and Christmas , there was a party held for every member of the TA unit and their girlfriends and wives ; the price of the ticket included food and as much as you could drink . |
| 22 | as much as you could have |
| 23 | She flushed scarlet , hastily collected as much as she could carry and started off up the cliff path . |
| 24 | It was as much as she could do to restrain herself from rushing forward to grasp his hand in a gesture of sympathy and solidarity . |
| 25 | It was as much as she could do to push the hand-cart and to carry her body around with her . |
| 26 | In the interval Frederica became useful for once , and recited to the bored young Grimauds as much as she could remember — and it was a great deal — of the thick , incomprehensible English verse . |
| 27 | The food filled a hole and that was as much as anyone could say for it , or maybe anything would have tasted like sawdust right then . |
| 28 | erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper |
| 29 | She added : ‘ Extra care should be taken with reference books such as these as they could mislead future generations about the history of the area . |
| 30 | In the first five months , Sony sold as many as they could manufacture with unit sales topping 70,000 . |