Example sentences of "as [pron] [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I want to make it clear to both of you — as I shall to Mrs Abberley — that any further information you come across touching on this case should be communicated to us immediately . |
| 2 | I had , however , already decided that I would do hypothetically as I would in practice for an Uaru tank — collect my own gravel and rocks fro the wild state . |
| 3 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 4 | I suggested as gently as I could to Jean-Claude that he give Chaillot a ring . |
| 5 | In fact I have gone further and said a " mixed " crew was , in my view , infinitely better than , any " national " crew , one of the reasons , possibly , for the high proportion of Commonwealth crews was my established policy of spreading my selection net as widely as I could in view of the poor cooperation of the Groups ; to this end I literally plagued the various HQs in London — the Aussies at Kodak House etc . |
| 6 | ‘ I am also anxious to learn as much as I can about AEA , and we are planning a series of visits to the different sites over coming months . |
| 7 | He says sometimes it 's a pain cos you get up and if I 'm late I 've got to rush around and go as fast as I can to school and you get cold and your fingers start freezing up so it 's not much fun . |
| 8 | Um nevertheless er there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that to include children , to include apparently emotionally immature people , in sexual relationships as you would with adults is is fundamentally abusive . |
| 9 | Dress as you would at home . |
| 10 | You can either cut this stem away , as you would at pruning or after flowering , or , if you are only budding one or two , take a bud and leave the stem standing . |
| 11 | Simply choose scraps of material , in this case crumpled grease-proof paper and a bird 's feather , and stick them to a piece of stout hardboard using PVA glue , as you would in collage . |
| 12 | Learn as much as you can about Plato , Socrates and their times . |
| 13 | Find out as much as you can about procedures for stock storage , handling and rotation in the shop where you work/a shop you know . |
| 14 | Now write as much as you can about Auntie the sort of person she was , what members of her family thought of her , what her niece realises about her at the end . |
| 15 | Right , so off you go , write as much as you can about W O P . |
| 16 | Unfortunately you ca n't crystallize diamonds out of a solution by seeding them , as you can with hypo . |
| 17 | Sadly , you ca n't create charts from within the spreadsheet , as you can with ClarisWorks . |
| 18 | You should read as much as you can of European and American drama , both historical and contemporary , for by doing so you will certainly set yourself up well for both drama school training and your subsequent acting career . |
| 19 | You will not be driven like the commercial nursery into getting as many as you can per acre ( hectare ) , and can therefore afford to be a little more generous with spacing to give yourself room to move about more comfortably . |
| 20 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 21 | If this happens , to recoup the loss , try to pay as much as you can in AVCs into your occupational scheme or a separate one , or into a personal pension scheme — if necessary right up to the tax limit . |
| 22 | She turned her face as far as she could towards Marie . |
| 23 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 24 | Can you wonder that Virginia , the Elf Second , used to put her head down , keep her eyes fixed straight in front of her , and pedal as hard as she could past Wardle Wood and the old woman who lived in the cottage in the middle of it . |
| 25 | Until then , she accepted it as graciously as she could for necessities only , much to her father 's irritation … |
| 26 | Belinda had worked very hard indeed for nearly twelve years since her mother 's death , becoming almost a mother herself to the twin boys and doing as much of the cooking and housekeeping as she could between school and homework . |
| 27 | With an exclamation of disgust , she pushed herself to her knees and flung the offending branch as far as she could in temper at her own stupidity . |
| 28 | She panicked for a moment , and then seeing the beam on his face , smiled as calmly as she could in response . |
| 29 | Alice fulfilled the orders , then sat down as far as she could from Alfred who had just arrived . |
| 30 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |