Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb mod] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah I know , but its still very hard work , and I 'm ten years older than he is I , I just did as much as I could for him really , I mean I did more mixing than he did , I did nearly all the mixing |
| 2 | I would n't charge I I I 'd try and get as much as I could off him cos he was working . |
| 3 | They 'd served their purpose , as a handwritten note pushed through the door on the Saturday afternoon had shown ; Mr Sampson — Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 5 | Many people think you can only do what the punchcard tells you to do but , being me , I always try to get as much as I can from them — even with a lace card I 'll try knitting it in different ways . |
| 6 | Choose a product and try to find out as much as you can about it . |
| 7 | " If there 's any trouble , get out of it , " he said , " and take as many as you can with you . " |
| 8 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 9 | Er er with er with them as you will with us but er |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ she told him , leaning over as far as she could towards him . |
| 11 | ‘ We looked round , and there was Anna , crawling as fast as she could to me . |
| 12 | Alyssia gazed at him for a fraction of a second , then she took his advice and walked back to the house , when what she wanted to do was run as far away as she could from it . |
| 13 | For a while , Jem manages to restrict Scout who does n't realise how serious everything is and wants to run to Atticus , but eventually she breaks free and runs as fast as she can to him . |
| 14 | We 'll make it as easy as we can for you . |
| 15 | Charles became as adept at changing nappies and bathing William as Diana , and , even when he was small , both spent as much time as they could with him . |
| 16 | We 're aiming it at , at private individuals — people who 've got an interest in the Stock Exchange , and are trying to update their interest and get as much information as they can about it . |
| 17 | If they 're gon na put it through as quick as they can for us , cos they want us |
| 18 | Erm , I think we ought to make it very clear again , that we can now trace calls , and er , I hope the press are noting that and making as much as they can of it , because that 's the sort of thing that helps to remove malicious calls , which go which cost a lot of money , and a lot of time , and also put somebody else 's life in danger when an appliance has been called out to something that it 's not required for . |
| 19 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 20 | ‘ A gang war would be as damaging to Connelly as it would to us . |
| 21 | I know it will give as much joy and satisfaction to you as it will to me , to know that we have played our part in this great crusade for children 's health . |
| 22 | He bore her down to the carpet , his face hard against hers , one hand pulling up her skirts , and when she still struggled struck her a blow which left her half stunned on the floor , for him to do as he would with her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She felt all right now and when Tucker came as close as he could to her , confidentially crooking his finger , she was only too pleased to lean precariously forward over the dock , ear to his lips . |
| 25 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 26 | He was shaking with nerves , anxious to put as many miles as he could between them and the scene of the abduction . |