Example sentences of "hard as [pron] could " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |
| 2 | Now , sadly , ( if the Press is to be believed ) they seem principally an anti-terrorist force , and whereas in 1944 their aims were sabotage and hitting a recognised enemy as hard as they could , today they are forced to deal largely with the un-uniformed enemy in our midst . |
| 3 | Tough frontier folk that they were , the Ostlanders fought as hard as they could , and the Count of Ostland gathered an army to fight the green tide . |
| 4 | Three hundred Catholic miners marched in from Cleator Moor , four miles away , intercepted him outside the meeting-hall , beat him as hard as they could , and left him for dead . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He simply said something about it 's being his land and Piers told him we had made a mistake and we all rode off as hard as we could because we were bursting with laughter — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If we drove as hard as we could at that car coming towards us — ’ she began . |
| 8 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 9 | I pushed as hard as I could but it was obvious there was no chance of passing him . ’ |
| 10 | I kicked the blackguard in the guts as hard as I could , flogged him into insensibility , and dropped him in the canal . |
| 11 | ‘ I trained as hard as I could and spend 2½ hours in the gym every day for six months , ’ said Smith , adding confidently , ‘ the winter has done its job . ’ |
| 12 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 13 | I trained as often and as hard as I could , as hard as anybody on the staff — and that includes my old pal Bryan Robson , who was notorious for his unflagging effort — but the pain was excruciating . |
| 14 | I stuck my fingers up his nose and pushed as hard as I could . |
| 15 | In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella . |
| 16 | I fought back as hard as I could . |
| 17 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 18 | I hit it again , as hard as I could . |
| 19 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |
| 20 | I pushed him again as hard as I could and ran for the door . |
| 21 | I kneed him in the balls as hard as I could . |
| 22 | Quinquennial , institutional review visits became more prominent , and Hornby commented : ‘ I shoved this as hard as I could go ’ . |
| 23 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 24 | We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? " |
| 25 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 26 | In those days Seve just hit the ball as hard as he could . |
| 27 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 28 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 29 | Masklin listened as hard as he could . |
| 30 | As he felt his own orgasm beginning to pulsate be felt her legs gripping him and drove his penis into her as hard as he could , bursting inside her like a dam . |