Example sentences of "as [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 2 | The snow was banked in humps at the roadside but I pulled in as much as I could to let him pass . |
| 3 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 4 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 5 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 6 | The children of Egypt played in the dust-laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . |
| 7 | As far as I could tell she 'd drunk a litre and a half , allowing for spillage , so her behaviour was understandable . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't let her trouble you , especially as I could tell she 'd no good news . ’ |
| 9 | And erm he he worked shifts , er the morning shift or the day shift as it was called , which was from erm , I do n't know as far as I could tell it was from six till two or something like that . |
| 10 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 11 | I decided then that , as soon as I could afford it , I 'd build myself a house here by the sea . |
| 12 | As far as I could remember I 'd rowed ashore in a fairly direct line from Joanna to the beach . |
| 13 | All the trees ( except the hollies ) were bare-rooted transplants and as small as I could get them . |
| 14 | Then the pack of zander went through the swim and as they went by I took fish of 6lb 8oz , 8lb0oz , 8lb 6oz , 5lb 15oz and l0lb 11oz as fast as I could reel them in and then they were gone . |
| 15 | Apparently as soon as I could read I always had my nose stuck in a book . |
| 16 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 17 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 18 | Them as who could make it a bit cheaper see , and all that . |
| 19 | And you know that at the same time as you could clout them you 'd actually die for them also if it came to the point . |
| 20 | No they was , used to cut it up smaller so as you could handle it . |
| 21 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 22 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 23 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 24 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 25 | Back at Low Birk Hatt there was no such problem because the demands of the seasons , and particularly the daily needs of my animals — my family , as you could call them — filled every waking moment . |
| 26 | what was Mr attitude to spending on national advertising in so far as you could work it out ? |
| 27 | I could do about six different costing forms , so it 's not like you could have a yellow wallet , because , presumably he 's saying we want a yellow wallet with enquiry form , a costing form , and that is as far as you could have it anyway . |
| 28 | She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it . |
| 29 | Writing to Ellen as soon as she could manage it , she could not help confessing : |
| 30 | Well ; that would be as soon as she could manage it . |