Example sentences of "as they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't realized just how much I 'd got out of the swing of things but everyone helped as much as they could and I soon adjusted back again . |
| 2 | Soon all three of them were reeling out and reeling in , pouncing on the fish as soon as they could reach them and pulling the hooks from their mouths . |
| 3 | Investors could generally assume , as they could not in 1982-84 , that most bank loans made to developers and speculators had been adequately secured and documented . |
| 4 | Members of the medical faculty said they would fax press reports of the Peking democracy movement to as many recipients as they could find in China , to overcome censorship . |
| 5 | But advertising is itself extremely volatile and profits could take a dive as easily as they could soar . |
| 6 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |
| 7 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 8 | We try to see that conditions at work are such that if I , to make it personal , was working in a particular factory , I would find them as congenial as they could reasonably be . |
| 9 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 10 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 11 | Charles became as adept at changing nappies and bathing William as Diana , and , even when he was small , both spent as much time as they could with him . |
| 12 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 13 | But by the end of the decade they had absorbed the lessons learned by the other teams , and had accepted that , if they played as well as they could , they could win . |
| 14 | The incentive given to savings and loan associations to invest as riskily as they could , the blind eye turned to supervision of thrifts and banks alike , the abolition of tax credits for investment : all were passed on almost without friction by the smooth wheels of finance . |
| 15 | After decades of trying to become big competitors , they were determined to learn as much as they could as suppliers to America 's Boeing , the world 's biggest civil-aircraft maker , and then to stand on their own . |
| 16 | They would move in by Christmas and bring as many friends as they could . |
| 17 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 18 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 19 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 20 | As one rather disillusioned Protestant Unionist put it : ‘ they were a party who believed in their God given right to rule this country ’ and they were not about to give up that right , especially as they could see signs of regaining control of their own party . |
| 21 | Now the Charskys were scraping together , mostly from abroad , as many books on the subject as they could get . |
| 22 | But although increases in pay have tailed off , Mr Page said : ‘ Professional firms are not as aggressive as they could be on cutting salaries . |
| 23 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 24 | These more remote areas were ‘ dying ’ agriculturally as they could neither keep the present generation nor attract ‘ new blood ’ . |
| 25 | As far as they could see , the walls were plain white , with evenly spaced-out black doors . |
| 26 | No flat areas or hollows should be left as they could cause smoke problems . |
| 27 | When news of the Bookman 's capture had spread , everyone dropped what they were doing and rushed to the library as fast as they could . |
| 28 | Now , sadly , ( if the Press is to be believed ) they seem principally an anti-terrorist force , and whereas in 1944 their aims were sabotage and hitting a recognised enemy as hard as they could , today they are forced to deal largely with the un-uniformed enemy in our midst . |
| 29 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 30 | Yes , the children were well , as they could see . |