Example sentences of "[adj] as i can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 3 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 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 | As long as I can remember we 've been up here |
| 12 | I 'm not bothered either way as long as I can read it . |
| 13 | Er I , I know what , as long as I can see what you 've done . |
| 14 | Whether they are in a particular building in one place or another , actually I could n't give a monkey 's as a parent , and I do n't care where the school is as long as I can get my kids there and they get a good deal . |
| 15 | I 'll be there as soon after five as I can make it . ’ |
| 16 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 17 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |
| 18 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 19 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 20 | Yeah but as far as I can see there either is a surplus or there is n't , you know , that it should n't depend on where you organize the a aggregate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Erm and I I as far as I can remember I think such things as underwear were unknown . |
| 23 | Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain . |
| 24 | I was n't too bad with them as far as I can remember I was fairly okay . |
| 25 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 26 | Erm , they were not interviewed , they if they were accepted by a teacher training college they received erm a maximum of , of fifty pounds a year but erm as far as I can remember there was no loan erm element in that but I m I may be wrong because er but I never can remember erm writing to recover loans from the training college student . |
| 27 | As near two thirty as I can make it . ’ |
| 28 | Erm as near as I can tell you , I could be about er er fourteen . |