Example sentences of "as you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seedlings , upright as bishops , are as free-fruiting and close-branched as you could wish for . |
| 2 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 3 | ‘ It was as far as you could go in Moyne . |
| 4 | Its engine was American , its assembly was completed in America , it would n't have happened without Shelby 's American dream , but underneath it all the Shelby AC Cobra was a British a sports car as you could wish to see . |
| 5 | Brutality , as Hill describes and felt it , was a bitter part of his prison life ; you just learnt to get down on the floor as fast as you could and cover up as best you could . |
| 6 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 7 | The ten diagonal chimneys rising from the steep pantiled roof are the finishing touch , making Allerthorpe as grand a farmhouse as you could find in all Yorkshire . |
| 8 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 9 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 10 | Are you as fit , healthy , and content as you could be ? |
| 11 | As quick as you could hear , |
| 12 | Up an abrupt conical escarpment dotted with modern but pleasant villas was an olive-scattered plateau and as much tranquillity as you could wish for . |
| 13 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 14 | Failure to do so will mean that your efforts in negotiating long-term security of tenure might be in vain , as you could eventually find the shareholders deciding to bring your contract to a premature end and discover that you are unable to claim compensation for the full period during which you expected to work . |
| 15 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 16 | You got out as quickly as you could the next morning otherwise they could get into your skin . |
| 17 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 18 | As far as you could see there was a great undulating cushion of varied greenery , mile upon mile of leaves . |
| 19 | These are all responses which were highly suitable in prehistoric times when events required either that you ran away as fast as you could or that you had a surge of energy to help you fight your way out of a difficult situation as ferociously as possible ( fight or flight behaviour ) . |
| 20 | As fine a herd of slaves as you could wish — one hundred and twenty prime males and another seventy young females , half a dozen or so children and two suckling babes . |
| 21 | ‘ And I 've asked it nary a word till we got here , so as you could hear the story as well . |
| 22 | Ray Parker 's theme tune was transferred onto the SID chip as perfectly as you could imagine , so when you add the lyrics to the bottom of the screen with a bouncing dot highlighting the words in time with the music … |
| 23 | Gremlins is essentially a text adventure , following the original plot as closely as you could hope for . |
| 24 | However , after extensive playtesting it turned out that P2 is as enjoyable as you could hope for … and beats the living daylights out of 90% of all other games in this category . |
| 25 | As polished and realistic a darts sim as you could wish for , you really ca n't beat a bit of Bully ! |
| 26 | Over the years the plants have moved around to wherever suits them best , so that the effect is almost as natural as you could hope for in an aquarium . |
| 27 | ‘ Free rock'n'roll in the park every weekend with naked girls everywhere , and as much pussy as you could eat . ’ |
| 28 | All entries showed imagination and , more to the point , a keen enjoyment in the task of cramming in as many obscure and erudite words as you could find in the dictionary . |
| 29 | That apart , the book is as encyclopaedic a work on homebuilding and homebuilts as you could hope to find , as befits the fastest growing sector of general aviation , and the one where the greatest innovation is now to be found . |
| 30 | Make sure you do n't put the ice directly on the skin as you could burn the area — wrap it in a tea towel or an old shirt first . |