Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before , and through the morning into the afternoon , the Wolverines had rampaged from level to level , always moving as quickly and confusingly as they could . |
| 2 | Moving as quietly and gently as she could to avoid scaring the budgie away , Penny climbed up on to the fence and then , by way of various branches , up the tree . |
| 3 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 4 | Her right hand tingled to smack his arrogant face , but she remembered her drama coach 's advice , consciously releasing her tension in a long , draining breath ; then she said as clearly and cuttingly as she could , ‘ Whatever has Peter done to deserve a rat like you for a brother ? |
| 5 | In fact , in her continuing ‘ effort to be objective ’ , O'Keeffe based more and more of her imagery on observable forms in nature , and she represented them as exactly and precisely as she could . |
| 6 | She is stiff , exceptionally fast and as well mannered and seakindly as one could wish . |
| 7 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 8 | We held hands all the way through Live Aid , having not spoken to each other for a week , and then rushed off to the Post Office as soon as we could with our three pounds . |
| 9 | ‘ We sent our rescue team as soon as we could , but it was too late , ’ he said . |
| 10 | We sent our rescue team as soon as we could , but it was too late , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
| 12 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , who believes the parlour was open for three days , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
| 13 | Soon all three of them were reeling out and reeling in , pouncing on the fish as soon as they could reach them and pulling the hooks from their mouths . |
| 14 | Winston was picking a team of folk from all walks of life to see them as soon as they could . |
| 15 | With rare exceptions , refugee children were expected to leave home as soon as they could fend for themselves . |
| 16 | People found that their savings became completely worthless and that salaries , once received , declined in value so rapidly that workers became desperate to convert currency into goods as soon as they could . |
| 17 | Many deserted before the battle even started , and a number of nobles surrendered as soon as they could decently do so . |
| 18 | The Dodger and Charley Bates had left the crowd which was chasing Oliver as soon as they could . |
| 19 | If the city 's culture lies in its heritage , its great literary tradition — Wilde , Shaw , Joyce , Beckett , O'Casey and all that — then surely the celebrations must involve a recognition that they found the city less than congenial and got out as soon as they could ? |
| 20 | He added that Sergia 's people had been grateful , though they 'd ushered Chertro and his prisoner off-planet as soon as they could . |
| 21 | A special vestry was called and resolved " to hire a shop as soon as they could " . |
| 22 | A little while ago children were expected to be down in the mines and underneath textile machinery , so they were n't actually treated as children , they were erm wager earners at a very low age , as soon as they could be walking they were doing a job , so I feel that we 're all children in fact , there is no great division between being a child and being an adult , and we in fact ca n't always cope with what 's happening and the shocks infect . |
| 23 | John Nott said that the nuclear submarine Dreadnought was going to be scrapped as soon as anyone could think of a way of doing it and the US and USSR declined to consider each other 's plans for nuclear disarmament . |
| 24 | Then he landed in Oxford just at the right time to go out to the factory and it was open , and you had to get your car as soon as you could and see that everything was all right . |
| 25 | She said you 'd call in as soon as you could . |
| 26 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 27 | But as soon as you could walk , then they 'd throw you in then watching you every minute . |
| 28 | erm It 's sometimes a little bit daunting to go to a school , particularly if you happen perhaps to have hated school yourself and not to have been near a school for a long time , got away from it as soon as you could when you were younger . |
| 29 | Left home as soon as she could , McLeish observed , instead of starting where she could work from home . |
| 30 | Jane escaped as soon as she could and never went back , though she once saw ‘ madame ’ tango at a press party . |