Example sentences of "as we could " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both got out of the jeep as fast as we could and sprinted in the direction of the slit trenches . |
| 2 | We wanted to walk around as much of the coastline as we could in several hours . |
| 3 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 4 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 5 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 6 | We held hands all the way through Live Aid , having not spoken to each other for a week , and then rushed off to the Post Office as soon as we could with our three pounds . |
| 7 | As long as we could . |
| 8 | I took the dinghy as far as we could go , right up near to the lock gates . |
| 9 | But we 'll need fresh legs on Monday and we tried to protect as many as we could . ’ |
| 10 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 11 | The mother was as perfect a physical specimen as we could find . |
| 12 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 14 | After she had been with us a fortnight we told her , as gently as we could , that she was never going back … |
| 15 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 16 | Getting there , getting in , and expenses , that 's as much as we could manage . |
| 17 | ‘ Not that we did n't check on Elsie , as much as we could … ’ |
| 18 | ( This is a policy we have pursued with all our children , to answer as truthfully as we could just the question asked . |
| 19 | Because as far as we could see , |
| 20 | We survived the General Strike of 1926 , as we could exchange fish for other foods . |
| 21 | We waited in the safety of the cellar for as long as we could , but there was no ‘ All Clear . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 23 | Even more determined were Hastings folk to get as speedy an end to the Nazi brutes as we could . |
| 24 | Willing hands helped us rescue as many of them as we could , and we got our robes out to take home and wash . |
| 25 | We went in the direction of Stoke Poges and recited as much of the ‘ Elegy ’ as we could remember . |
| 26 | We only had such wood as we could scrounge , and to light a fire with the bare minimum of paper and wood , plus uncooperative coke is difficult to say the least . |
| 27 | Things were a bit easier at Binbrook in that direction as we could sleep between midnight and 6am , but I must admit that most nights I had considerably less sleep than that . |
| 28 | We sang All things bright and beautiful as loud as we could and tucked into the tea-table contributions of aunts , cousins and friends with rare gusto . |
| 29 | It was silent , relentless , always going as hard as we could — I was virtually holding you clear as the blows , they felt like blows , pummelled you . |
| 30 | There were three people in front and two of us packing as fast as we could . |