Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted a church wedding with as many of the trimmings as they could possibly afford . |
| 2 | Teixeira , the old I P leader , tried to get put in command of them , having up till now succeeded in putting as much distance between himself and those dangerous embarrassments as he could . |
| 3 | And Phil promised he would make as many trips as he could to see the lads in the red and white . |
| 4 | Would Sir Alexander Ramsay , of his goodness and in his leal duty to the King 's Grace and his Regent , come to Lochmaben Castle in Annandale at his earliest convenience , bringing with him such armed and horsed supporters as he could raise at short notice ? |
| 5 | It was her opinion , she told Rory , that there was something awful funny going on , that this western city in the poorest part of a poor country should have such places , and such shops as they could see all round them , and such terrific style . |
| 6 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 7 | All entries showed imagination and , more to the point , a keen enjoyment in the task of cramming in as many obscure and erudite words as you could find in the dictionary . |
| 8 | Tariq , to his credit , said we should take out as many pictures as we could , and taking them out cost 70 which at that time was ever such a lot of money . ’ |
| 9 | I thought of other things ; a fast hockey-match , an adventure story , the problems in a game of chess , a field of snowdrops and crocus in springtime , the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven and as many other happy subjects as I could conjure up . |
| 10 | Gabriel wrapped the white cloak tighter around him , and pulled his curly hair as far down to his shoulders as he could . |
| 11 | ‘ If you believe that , sir , ’ said Mark with as much politeness as he could muster , ‘ you will naturally not share the concern I have expressed in my papers . |
| 12 | With this aim in mind , he bought as many teach-yourself-photography books as he could lay his hands on , and read them all avidly . |
| 13 | He said the firm could not afford to ignore such losses as they could put the jobs of 1,300 employees in jeopardy . |
| 14 | Burton pulled the struggle out into the open and made this ‘ thing ’ that was himself stand up to as many trials as he could imagine . |
| 15 | Members of the medical faculty said they would fax press reports of the Peking democracy movement to as many recipients as they could find in China , to overcome censorship . |
| 16 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 17 | Well , in this particular experiment , what the experimenters did was , when the parental birds left the nest , they stuffed the erm , the chicks as full with worms as they could possibly stuff it . |
| 18 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
| 19 | And the man of God told her to go out and talk to her neighbours and come back with as many empty jars as she could borrow . |
| 20 | Salvage from sailing ships was an important additional income for the local people , but ceased with the coming of the steamships as they could stand out to sea in a storm . |
| 21 | I went to as many classes as I could , although as they worked college terms they did n't start until September and I arrived in July . |
| 22 | He solved the problem of how to eradicate this grass by commandeering a group of my school friends and myself with instructions to pick as many bundles of thirty of these grasses as we could , for which he paid us three-pence each . |
| 23 | She directed me to take as many balls as I could carry and put them downstairs . |
| 24 | I picked out as many balls as I could manage , then she closed the lid and we returned downstairs . |
| 25 | He was determined to regain as much of his former abilities as he could and each time he began his rehabilitation with as much vigour as he could muster . |
| 26 | He was determined to regain as much of his former abilities as he could and each time he began his rehabilitation with as much vigour as he could muster . |
| 27 | We already had the French and Germans with us , and we divided the remaining eighty-odd delegates between us so that on the day before the first meeting we could explain our intentions and our reasoning to as many delegates as we could find . |
| 28 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 29 | Mrs Murphy snatched the opportunity to ask Mrs Frizzell to proceed with her report , which she did , outlining the story as far as she knew it and using as many euphemisms as she could . |
| 30 | As many straining muscles as anyone could bear , and some attractive flares too |