Example sentences of "as [adj] as you could " 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 | That aside , the rest of the main editing screen is as clear as you could wish . |
| 3 | How would you feel if you knitted yourself a nice little doll , out of the most expensive yarn you could buy , and spent the best years of your life working on it to make it as perfect as you could — then it suddenly got up and walked away and turned into something different ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a case of grabbing first and taking as much as you could before your neighbour pulled the dish away from you . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It 's only a tiny little dinghy , two people in there is about as much as you could manage . |
| 8 | Erm mm , no , you just play it , yo well , you he yes and no , I mean i er you , you , you were ge you were getting in pra i the equivalent of thirty pound a barrel discount erm , which is probably as much as you could er could get , er in , in in a free free house any , er except that you 've got , you know , fifteen , twenty thousand pounds up front as a payment to you . |
| 9 | as much as you could have |
| 10 | As quick as you could hear , |
| 11 | As quick as you could leave ? |
| 12 | Over the years the plants have moved around to wherever suits them best , so that the effect is almost as natural as you could hope for in an aquarium . |
| 13 | Are you as fit as you could be ? |
| 14 | It was really better to be like Paul Lane , about as rootless as you could be , moving easily around as served your ambition and owing no one anything . |
| 15 | ‘ Not that anyone as beautiful as you could be ignored of course . |
| 16 | ‘ It was as far as you could go in Moyne . |
| 17 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 18 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 19 | I could do about six different costing forms , so it 's not like you could have a yellow wallet , because , presumably he 's saying we want a yellow wallet with enquiry form , a costing form , and that is as far as you could have it anyway . |
| 20 | North , South , East and West , as far as you could go . |
| 21 | ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget . |
| 22 | However , after extensive playtesting it turned out that P2 is as enjoyable as you could hope for … and beats the living daylights out of 90% of all other games in this category . |