Example sentences of "[noun] as i can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 2 | ‘ We are emerging from just about as difficult a period as I can remember in over 37 years in the business , but we are emerging with capital ratios still among the strongest of any of the world 's banks — ready and willing to lend for any viable purpose , and desperate for the chance to show both personal and corporate customers that the personal , flexible , friendly service which we have tried to give in the past and which I hope has given us the privilege of enjoying your company tonight — that same service is still very much on offer today . ’ |
| 3 | No , no I can , I can honestly say that I do n't think there was any , any what you can call rough families as I can remember . |
| 4 | Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe . |
| 5 | There 's not so many warm spots as I can spare this'n . ’ |
| 6 | I try my best to respond as intelligently as possible to as many consultations as I can manage . |
| 7 | Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out . |
| 8 | I shall get as much out the system as I can mate ! |
| 9 | This is an interlude — as uncomplicated an interlude as I can make it . ’ |
| 10 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 11 | I return her smile with such reassurance as I can muster . |
| 12 | And why I sit here , husbandless , dependent upon social security supplemented by such pitiful amounts of money as I can wring out of the national press , and Bernard genuflects once more , fled back to his baptismal church , terrified by the very notion of living outside it . |
| 13 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 14 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 15 | I want as precise a time of death as I can get . |
| 16 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |