Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn walked forward into the brightly lit , ultra-modern kitchen as purposefully as she could manage and took the mug of steaming coffee he held out to her with shaking hands . |
| 2 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 3 | At lunchtime , when he read the note , he would always thank her as warmly as he could , but her mistake of taste was plainly defined in his face . |
| 4 | Bob Platt and I pressed for a bowler as fiercely as we could , but to no avail . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ Ellie added as fiercely as she could . |
| 6 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 7 | Just in case , Thérèse performed as many acts of mortification daily as she could think of . |
| 8 | ‘ So long as one could avoid the wretched cliché : girl impeded , hero dangerously tarrying . |
| 9 | We waited in the safety of the cellar for as long as we could , but there was no ‘ All Clear . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That was believed important , for with the Enchantment useless , we knew that we had to keep the Wolfline alive for as long as we could . |
| 11 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 12 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 13 | They were even willing to occupy pre-moulded nests so long as they could carry out their normal movements before laying . |
| 14 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 15 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 16 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 17 | They talked about other Christmas flops and bombs , delaying for as long as they could any mention of TCT 's ‘ T is He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ , which had cost practically nothing to make and had already done 120 million in its first three weeks . |
| 18 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 19 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |
| 20 | Just so long as they could finish this stupid game and get on to his answer . |
| 21 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 22 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 23 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 24 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 25 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 26 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 27 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 28 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 29 | ( Menina was Portuguese for " Miss " , and Candida had called Sara that for as long as she could remember . ) |
| 30 | For the first time she felt a faint stirring of compassion for her own mother , whose obsession with her appearance , shopping , flirtation and gossip Julia had despised for as long as she could remember . |