Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] i [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before .
2 I felt that I would be able to work more efficiently if I could refer patients in my care to any of the A&E doctors .
3 He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken .
4 ‘ I 'm going to try as hard as I can .
5 Determined to fight , I shouted as loudly as I could .
6 I shouted as loudly as I could .
7 ‘ I trained as hard as I could and spend 2½ hours in the gym every day for six months , ’ said Smith , adding confidently , ‘ the winter has done its job . ’
8 I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project .
9 After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ?
10 Perhaps I tried too hard when I would have been better off relaxing . ’
11 I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it .
12 ‘ But one thing I do n't want to happen as time goes by is to sit down and say that I did n't do as well as I might have done in another tournament because I did n't put in enough effort .
13 ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’
14 ‘ I came as quickly as I could .
15 In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella .
16 The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly .
17 I it does n't speak very highly if I may say so Group Captain , for R A F discipline if what you 're telling me and telling the committee that you think that pilots should be using this facility , would be using this facility when they 're ordered not to .
18 I do n't work as hard as I used to .
19 I could n't run as fast as I would have liked .
20 I will run as quickly as I can through the minutes of the last meeting just raising those things which still have to be actioned .
21 ‘ I shall ring as often as I can , and if Dana phones try to get her address or telephone number , ’ Claudia said firmly , cutting across Myra 's flight of fancy in which she and Roman Wyatt danced every night and forgot all about Dana and Garry .
22 ‘ I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now .
23 ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job .
24 I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can .
25 ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased .
26 And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good .
27 ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch .
28 I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could
29 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill .
30 ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’
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