Example sentences of "[det] as he could [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage .
2 They had known each other for some considerable time and Frick trusted Schiller as much as he could trust any man .
3 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 ) .
4 He wanted , from his own point of view , as much as he could get of the best of both worlds .
5 ‘ But he ate as many as he could get , ’ said Tweedledum .
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