Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] they could [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 2 | The brindle hounds , John Deverill 's speciality and obsession , stood well to order at one side of the drive with the whippers-in waiting as patiently as they could for the order to move off . |
| 3 | Once they had been admitted , every volunteer behaved within the mental hospital as normally as they could in the circumstances , and said no more about hearing voices . |
| 4 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 5 | The purpose was to prevent crowding of BES issues at the end of the tax year , but the ceiling limit meant that investors putting up the full 140,000 still made most of their investments as near as they could to 5th April . |
| 6 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 7 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 8 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 9 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 10 | The thin man said Crane should be left to make his own way so that the rest of them could ride as fast as they could down one of the tracks to the south . |
| 11 | The same procedure was adopted as for the immediate recall part of the experiment but words were used from set B. However , before the subject was allowed to recall the words an arbitrary three digit number , provided below the word list for each trial , was given to the subject and the subject asked to repeat the number and count backwards by threes as fast as they could for thirty seconds . |
| 12 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 13 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 14 | Once they had left the shop and collected their horses , Athelstan and Cranston rode as fast as they could up Piper Alley back into the main thoroughfare . |
| 15 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |