Example sentences of "as [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I could well I do know ho how to work it like before I go to bed and . |
| 2 | I turned as far as I could without rocking or creaking , but I could n't see him . |
| 3 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 4 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 5 | As I could n't work out where they were coming from I ignored them . |
| 6 | It was a bit difficult as I could n't feel what I was doing , but I concentrated on pushing the top of my uterus down through my bottom . |
| 7 | I emerged from its jaws a short time later , however , as I could n't bear the heat — My water wave fell down ! ’ |
| 8 | I left the stage in the middle of my song as I could n't hear a thing . |
| 9 | Bilaleet was less enjoyable for me as I could n't get used to sweet vermicelli , but then I never liked rice pudding either . |
| 10 | At night I used to put the pillow on my head and just hold it so as I could n't hear . |
| 11 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 12 | The one time you see it is when a woman takes her clothes off and can not look you in the eyes ( as I could n't then ) . |
| 13 | they 'd got ta be as I could n't go to them |
| 14 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 15 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 16 | The substitution did seem strange as I could n't see why Wallace was being taken off and not Deane ( or a defender ) . |
| 17 | Latin really was impossible as I could n't face a prose , but it was discovered that the Greek papers consisted only of two papers : |
| 18 | Well the insurance would have to go as well as I could n't afford to keep that going . |
| 19 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 20 | At first I thought I would die of hunger , as I could not eat the Yahoos ' dirty meat or the Houys ' grass and corn . |
| 21 | I am not normally a follower of the daily horoscopes in magazines as I could not see how one small horoscope could possibly influence so many millions of people born under a particular starsign . |
| 22 | I do not see how I can answer the question as I could not see properly the document that the hon. Member was waving . |
| 23 | Usually I spend money on fish rather than on equipment , as I could never afford all the trimmings for 20-plus tanks ! |
| 24 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 25 | ‘ I already know you as well as I could ever want to . |
| 26 | However , as I could now see , a vast area behind the shops had been cleared of housing and turned into an enormous shopping centre . |
| 27 | I wanted to use different coloured pens to mark out various patterns on the same sheet as I could only afford to buy one sheet at the time . |
| 28 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 29 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |
| 30 | He told me , ‘ I got as much as I could out of my workers . |