Example sentences of "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 | Indeed a modern zoologist would probably find that he could accept almost as much of Wilberforce 's argument as he could of Darwin 's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The right man can produce almost as much impression on a boy in a month as he could on a man in a year , but he must first understand him … |
| 5 | Carson stayed close to the walls and trod as delicately as he could on the bare boards . |
| 6 | His energy revived , Richard was now intent on keeping Victoria 's company as much to himself as he could for the rest of the day . |
| 7 | He had groomed himself as best as he could for the interview . |
| 8 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
| 9 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 10 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 11 | Jack drove the car as near as he could towards the station building and switched off the faltering engine . |
| 12 | He would thrust and persuade it as far as he could towards an ending . |
| 13 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 14 | He went as silently as he could up the drive and peered into the garage . |
| 15 | In an instant he checked , left the path and advanced as silently as he could through the trees . |
| 16 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 17 | Oliver , filled with anxiety , ran as fast as he could along the country roads and across the fields until , hot and exhausted , he reached the town . |
| 18 | He escaped as soon as he could to the company of her brothers . |
| 19 | He would have to wait , and until then he would keep as close as he could to the Russian . |
| 20 | She felt all right now and when Tucker came as close as he could to her , confidentially crooking his finger , she was only too pleased to lean precariously forward over the dock , ear to his lips . |
| 21 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 22 | Among the gentry residing there was to be found Mr Benedict Beckenham , riding as hard as he could to the devil . |
| 23 | Finally , Lear resigned himself to Gould 's impenetrable isolation , and , in a letter written in 1863 , came as close as he could to an objective description of his former employer and erstwhile friend : ‘ A more singularly offensive mannered man than G. hardly can be : but the queer fellow means well , tho 's more of an Egotist than can be described . ’ |
| 24 | Les Robinson came as close as he could to making up for his own goal , but it was n't Oxford 's day . |
| 25 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 26 | He also felt as secure as he could about Jacqui . |
| 27 | He told Nikos and Georgiades as much as he could about the current political log-jam , leaving out the Patros bit . |
| 28 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 29 | He was shaking with nerves , anxious to put as many miles as he could between them and the scene of the abduction . |
| 30 | Winter discovered that he could apply a limited amount of control by squeezing Mandarin with his knees , by swinging his body to one side or the other , and by applying such pressure as he could with the reins on the horse 's neck . |