Example sentences of "[adj] as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first encounter with a badger , as a lad of 10 , was as exciting as I could have wished . |
| 2 | But she 'd be as cool and calm as she could as she tried to point out to Naylor Massingham the unfairness of his action . |
| 3 | This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates . |
| 4 | ‘ My surgeon says further surgery would be morally wrong as it could affect my future health but I had to make an effort to get back after the England tour went wrong . |
| 5 | One point the department is very clear on , the section paragraph five thirteen of P P G twelve is as crystal clear as it could be , the structure plan should indicate the general location of individual developments likely to have a significant effect on the plan area . |
| 6 | That aside , the rest of the main editing screen is as clear as you could wish . |
| 7 | All the livelong day ’ and kick as high as they could . |
| 8 | However , those assault tanks were now concentrating las-cannon fire on the other Titans , raking upwards as high as they could — at fairings , legs , and belly — so that those Titans marched through a dancing aurora of writhing spider-lightning . |
| 9 | From the point when the water first burst the banks and began to rise up the gardens of the properties it was mainly a battle against he clock to try to stack everything as high as they could and take up the carpets . |
| 10 | So even although the dogs ' questing noses sniffed at the scent trail on the wall as high as they could reach on their hind legs , there was no dangling rope to draw their attention upwards to the figures on the roof . |
| 11 | If I was a bird , I 'd fly real high — as high as I could — close to the sun where I 'd be warm . |
| 12 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 13 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 14 | ‘ This much , ’ the Inca reputedly replied , his arm indicating a line as high as he could reach . |
| 15 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 16 | He told Beattie to climb as high as he could and watch what happened , but not to join in the fighting . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll make a proper job of this ! ’ she declared , and putting her fist into the crown , she forced it up as high as she could push it , and wore the resulting sombrero for the rest of the term . |
| 18 | Grinning conspiratorially , she reached up as high as she could , contorting her small body but not quite jumping . |
| 19 | She had to stand on her toes and reach up as high as she could with a walking-stick in order to hook the hat off the peg , and even then she only just made it . |
| 20 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 21 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 22 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 23 | Trying to look as dignified as she could , under the circumstances , she looked him straight in the eyes , with more than a touch of defiance . |
| 24 | Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds . |
| 25 | ‘ The alternate endings are about as different as they could be ’ , Gurr concludes , ‘ yet all Shakespeare changed was a speech heading ’ . |
| 26 | Midnight was as foreign as anyone could be . |
| 27 | All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed . |
| 28 | She seemed to be getting quite violent as I could feel the van sway from her leaning against it . |
| 29 | ‘ You now , of course , come into possession of a substantial sum , following Miss Morgan 's death , ’ McLeish observed , sounding as accusing as he could , and she stopped chewing and gave him her full attention . |
| 30 | Latin really was impossible as I could n't face a prose , but it was discovered that the Greek papers consisted only of two papers : |