Example sentences of "[adj] as i [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 2 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 3 | I 've done as much as I can to make it comfortable , but , among other things , it needs a modern bathroom , a new roof and all the windows replaced . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to have a rest now , Fru Møller , and I 'll be down as near to six as I can make it . ’ |
| 5 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 6 | And that 's as good as I can make it , Kirsty . |
| 7 | In all these cases the answer would be , " As good as I can get it . " |
| 8 | But my mum 's pretty good you know what I mean she as long as I can arrange it round her she 'll arrange her arrangements around me sort of thing . |
| 9 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got a bead on him , and as long as I can hold it I 'll have him when he moves . |
| 11 | I 'm not bothered either way as long as I can read it . |
| 12 | Erm the bedroom does n't get as hot as I would like it |
| 13 | I 'll be there as soon after five as I can make it . ’ |
| 14 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 15 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 16 | And erm he he worked shifts , er the morning shift or the day shift as it was called , which was from erm , I do n't know as far as I could tell it was from six till two or something like that . |
| 17 | As near two thirty as I can make it . ’ |