Example sentences of "as [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | American audiences showed their appreciation as only they could . |
| 2 | He rammed in the pitch , keeping his balance in the tossing pirogue , as only he could , he with his funambulist 's antennae , who might have scaled the ship on a free-floating ladder if it had been a parade , a feast , a time of play and rejoicing . |
| 3 | I can hear him saying it now as only he could , turning my name into an insult . ’ |
| 4 | He knelt over her for a moment , tough and handsome in the candlelight , his eyes triumphant with the knowledge of desire on the verge of fulfilment , possessing her as only he could , then he was bending , lifting her into his arms , carrying her across the room , and she felt the sudden chill as the door opened and , wedging it awkwardly with his foot , he bundled her through it . |
| 5 | She and Maggie brushed the room out as best they could and the glazier arrived with an enormous sheet of polythene for the roof . |
| 6 | By 1960 all Soviet technicians had been recalled , taking their blueprints with them and leaving the factories to be finished as best they could be . |
| 7 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 8 | The trio of actors became close off set , though with Fonda a committed monogamist , Hopper and Nicholson often went off into the night ; on one occasion they shared a memorable experience with LSD , so memorable , in fact , that both men have chosen , separately , to recall it in detail , as best they could . |
| 9 | It was by then too late to make for the safety of the mountains , and the scattered groups of jeeps had to hide as best they could at the foot of the escarpment . |
| 10 | People had to flee into the bush , seeking to hide from the bandits as best they could , coming into the village only by day . |
| 11 | The foregoing examples are taken from documents written by uneducated men who committed to paper , as best they could , what they thought they had heard , or spellings they believed appropriate . |
| 12 | Most of the well-to-do had departed hurriedly , leaving the resentful lower orders to cope with the French as best they could . |
| 13 | With that the three of them made off as best they could . |
| 14 | The villagers tied up his wounds as best they could and carried him thirty miles , non-stop , to the Haldwani hospital , where he died shortly after admission . |
| 15 | The stunned production team were dealing with the tidal wave as best they could when an awful realization dawned . |
| 16 | His followers now escaped as best they could . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the cast and crew occupied themselves as best they could . |
| 18 | The three on stage with Willie joined in as best they could , but they sounded as if they were reading out lines from a school book . |
| 19 | While the royals had decided to staunchly put on a united front as best they could , 70 miles away Diana refused to attend one of the two public services in village churches near the estate . |
| 20 | This branch of the family had had all the material success which their poor Frome cousins lacked , together with the necessary altruism to help out as best they could . |
| 21 | Victorians loved to wallow in the sentimentality of death because it was so prevalent and self-evident in their society that they had to come to terms with it as best they could . |
| 22 | One party supported another with covering fire as best they could . |
| 23 | The enemy prisoners and hurt could be left to find their way back to Roxburgh as best they could , stripped of their arms , armour and anything else worth having — although some of the mosstroopers were for slaying them out of hand . |
| 24 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 25 | The landlords did n't bother and people had to look after their houses as best they could . |
| 26 | ‘ When I reached eight tries I realised I was in with a chance of records and the lads helped me as best they could . ’ |
| 27 | Two brothers were reunited amid the misery of a Croatian refugee camp yesterday and celebrated as best they could … by sharing a bowl of scraps . |
| 28 | For the next three months virtual deadlock ensued , troops dug in as best they could , and lives were lost through disease and fruitless assaults . |
| 29 | The scientists fed the little bear as best they could , and the wound healed up , but the cub just stayed around the hut . |
| 30 | Captains had therefore to use their own resources to pay their men and bargain as best they could with the Exchequer ; but there is little evidence that delays in payment became a political issue . |