Example sentences of "soon as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We sent our rescue team as soon as we could , but it was too late , ’ he said . |
| 3 | We sent our rescue team as soon as we could , but it was too late , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
| 5 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , who believes the parlour was open for three days , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Winston was picking a team of folk from all walks of life to see them as soon as they could . |
| 8 | With rare exceptions , refugee children were expected to leave home as soon as they could fend for themselves . |
| 9 | People found that their savings became completely worthless and that salaries , once received , declined in value so rapidly that workers became desperate to convert currency into goods as soon as they could . |
| 10 | Many deserted before the battle even started , and a number of nobles surrendered as soon as they could decently do so . |
| 11 | The Dodger and Charley Bates had left the crowd which was chasing Oliver as soon as they could . |
| 12 | If the city 's culture lies in its heritage , its great literary tradition — Wilde , Shaw , Joyce , Beckett , O'Casey and all that — then surely the celebrations must involve a recognition that they found the city less than congenial and got out as soon as they could ? |
| 13 | He added that Sergia 's people had been grateful , though they 'd ushered Chertro and his prisoner off-planet as soon as they could . |
| 14 | A special vestry was called and resolved " to hire a shop as soon as they could " . |
| 15 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 16 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 17 | Left home as soon as she could , McLeish observed , instead of starting where she could work from home . |
| 18 | Jane escaped as soon as she could and never went back , though she once saw ‘ madame ’ tango at a press party . |
| 19 | Writing to Ellen as soon as she could manage it , she could not help confessing : |
| 20 | Her mother , defeated , would be away home as soon as she could . |
| 21 | Well ; that would be as soon as she could manage it . |
| 22 | As soon as she could , she resumed the normal pattern of her life , getting up at 7.30 a.m. to prepare breakfast for the older children and get them ready for school . |
| 23 | She would wriggle away from Sarah 's attention as soon as she could and hide in the garden . |
| 24 | Meryl escaped as soon as she could . |
| 25 | As soon as she could she had a serious talk with her mother . |
| 26 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 27 | She would come back as soon as she could . |
| 28 | And that was as soon as she could escape from this bloody prison . |
| 29 | She wanted to learn the new domestic geography as soon as she could , to find out what lay behind all the doors and how to light the stove and whereabouts the dog slept . |
| 30 | She just went in last night and said she 'd be back today as soon as she could . |