Example sentences of "[det] as he could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 2 | Used get as much as he could of them , I do n't know was it to keep the the amount of them down or not . |
| 3 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 4 | He told Nikos and Georgiades as much as he could about the current political log-jam , leaving out the Patros bit . |
| 5 | He had learnt as much as he could from the silly young woman teacher . |
| 6 | En route to the train-tube terminal Jaq comm-called Grimm to carry away as much as he could from the hotel suite , settle their account if challenged , and rendezvous at the Tormentum . |
| 7 | By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone . |