Example sentences of "as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all was well , as everyone could see when big , proud , handsome and scatty-but-obedient Moby launched himself out of the car ( on command , of course ! ) for the video cover photo call . |
| 2 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 3 | ‘ It does n't have to happen , ’ she said , her voice almost as stubborn as his could be at times . |
| 4 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 5 | I ran away as fast as I could along the pavement . |
| 6 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 7 | I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying . |
| 8 | I proceeded to pass on as many details as I could remember . |
| 9 | Miss Priss on a silk cushion , yowling my bahoolas off as soon as I could run away . ’ |
| 10 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 11 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 12 | I pushed as hard as I could but it was obvious there was no chance of passing him . ’ |
| 13 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 14 | And when I was lucky enough to enjoy some rare hot weather my feet stayed as cool as I could have expected . |
| 15 | As I could n't work out where they were coming from I ignored them . |
| 16 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 18 | If I was a bird , I 'd fly real high — as high as I could — close to the sun where I 'd be warm . |
| 19 | Pleasant to browse but unwise to buy as I could do without the extra weight of heavy tomes for the long haul after the town up past Hay Bluff to the Gospel Pass — a climb to more than 1,750 ft . |
| 20 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 21 | I have chosen as perfect an example as I could muster of each stage of that evolution , but it is inevitably a personal choice rather than a textbook one . |
| 22 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd run the length of Ashdale Great Edge , from this end to the Castle Rock , as fast as I could . ’ |
| 26 | As soon as I could I went to see Aunt Louise in her new home . |
| 27 | I sent Celia a bill for everything , as far as I could remember , Aunt Louise had cost in money . |
| 28 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 29 | I wanted to get far away from him as I could . |
| 30 | As far as I could see , a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted . |