Example sentences of "[det] as he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had learnt as much as he could from the silly young woman teacher . |
| 2 | He went about his work mechanically , withdrawing from contact with other children as much as he could but aware of a subtle shift in the groundswell of opinion around him . |
| 3 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 4 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 5 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 6 | Doyle had known Jack Stone before the bank job that had sent Stone to earth , and it was Ray Doyle , not Bodie , who Stone ‘ trusted ’ , as much as he could ever trust anyone . |
| 7 | Crudely put , it directed the young male of the species to ‘ get as much as he could ’ before marriage cut off every tap but one . |
| 8 | En route to the train-tube terminal Jaq comm-called Grimm to carry away as much as he could from the hotel suite , settle their account if challenged , and rendezvous at the Tormentum . |
| 9 | He wanted , from his own point of view , as much as he could get of the best of both worlds . |
| 10 | He had done this by various means : avoiding direct taxation as much as he could ; resorting to prerogative levies ; borrowing as heavily as he dared ; and finally relying upon the pope to tax the clergy for the benefit of the crown . |
| 11 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 12 | By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone . |
| 13 | As much as he could be aware of someone else 's problems , his own were the ones that preoccupied him most . |
| 14 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 15 | They had known each other for some considerable time and Frick trusted Schiller as much as he could trust any man . |
| 16 | Used get as much as he could of them , I do n't know was it to keep the the amount of them down or not . |
| 17 | Hours in the swamp and when they were going all thick and heavy there , he used to go round about October , just for that one day , and shoot as much as he could , and bring them into the mansion . |
| 18 | He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage . |
| 19 | He told Nikos and Georgiades as much as he could about the current political log-jam , leaving out the Patros bit . |
| 20 | He was expected to earn as much as he could ; that was the point of the " roundsman " system . |
| 21 | Perhaps Matthew was in love with Jenny , as much as he could be in love with anyone . |
| 22 | Asik was glad to get a drink ; it did not matter to him if the water was dirty or clean , he was thirsty and gulped down as much as he could , washed his feet and then filled up the water jug . |
| 23 | The passing of time had eroded the picture from his mind as much as he could possibly allow it , so that now the two images were one and the same . |
| 24 | ‘ But he ate as many as he could get , ’ said Tweedledum . |
| 25 | Coy tried to pick up as little as he could , tactful as a secretary . |
| 26 | Though it hardly arose , for the boy was engrossed in his Welsh affairs , and came south as little as he could . |