Example sentences of "the [noun] as [pron] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day she had the whole thing in perspective again , especially after she did find Louise at lunch and told her as much of the story as she could without mentioning Tom Russell . |
| 2 | She wanted a church wedding with as many of the trimmings as they could possibly afford . |
| 3 | It embarrassed him to be sitting so close to the rector 's wife and he kept as far to the side as he could so that no one would think he was enjoying her company . |
| 4 | I do not see how I can answer the question as I could not see properly the document that the hon. Member was waving . |
| 5 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 6 | He put his head as near the bars as he could so that they did not obstruct his view . |
| 7 | The court said that it could not tell the Chief Constable how he should respond to the situation as it could not judge the explosiveness of the situation at the time . |
| 8 | Even as this work was being carried out , freight traffic was in decline and BR soon made clear its intention to close the line as it could not be converted to 25 Kv AC . |
| 9 | Everything that terrible man laid in the way between them was a test or a trap , and all his will was bent to break the son as he could not break the father . |