Example sentences of "as i could " in BNC.
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| 31 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 32 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 33 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 34 | I would have to go as fast as I could while I could still see the way , and then rest for longer , and then probably crawl . |
| 35 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 36 | I wanted to get away from the scene as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I was about as low as I could be . |
| 38 | ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says . |
| 39 | I kept you here for as long as I could but I ca n't do that anymore . ’ |
| 40 | I saved up these incidents to amuse Leslie in my letters , and related as much as I could about our domestic and leisure activities . |
| 41 | I hurried over as quickly as I could . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ I got her up here as soon as I could . |
| 43 | I was determined to keep control and do as much as I could to help things on . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 46 | The experience as far as I could gather never disappoints : because of its own unique qualities , but also because of the attention we all pay it . |
| 47 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'd put in as much as I could and got out as much as possible at YPN . |
| 49 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 50 | I coughed again and set my voice into as impersonal a tone as I could manage . |
| 51 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 52 | Mr Lewis , so far as I could ascertain , had already retired . |
| 53 | Olomouc is full of churches , huge and chillingly ornate , freezing inside and as far as I could see deserted during the week . |
| 54 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ I said in as casual a voice as I could muster , and as the words left my lips a strange and wonderful thing happened . |
| 55 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 56 | I emerged from its jaws a short time later , however , as I could n't bear the heat — My water wave fell down ! ’ |
| 57 | Got back here as fast as I could . |
| 58 | ‘ Insofar as I could judge after only one small incident like that … yes , I suppose so . ’ |
| 59 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 60 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |