Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to try as hard as I can . |
| 2 | Determined to fight , I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 3 | I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 4 | Opening it wide , she shouted as loud as she could : ‘ I 'm warning you lot , one more noise and I 'll come up there and scalp the arses off yer ! ’ |
| 5 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Pressed very hard by Lauda in the final laps — ‘ leading a race was a brand-new experience for me , ’ he admitted at the time — he simply clung to his lead by driving as hard as he could . |
| 8 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 9 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 10 | If she was judged on her effort , then she regards the judgement as unfair since she tried as hard as she could . |
| 11 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 12 | ‘ With all our promotional campaigns , we want to work as closely as we can with booksellers . |
| 13 | I 'm Quechua , but I do n't want to work as hard as they must do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sleep is a great help to any illness , so sleep as much as you can . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | There will always be homes , local authority as well as private sector , which do not always behave as well as they should within the rules . |
| 18 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 19 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 20 | It was very wet , getting worse , and I did n't feel that the patient could tolerate sitting out flood waters , so we moved as fast as we could . ’ |
| 21 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 22 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 23 | You need to replace the brush heads as often as you would a conventional toothbrush . |
| 24 | She continued walking as fast as she could away from Emminster . |
| 25 | Adam approached as closely as he could . |
| 26 | Whether this is the way they express themselves does not matter so long as we can establish that this is the substance of their view . |
| 27 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 28 | In seeking ways in which planning procedures could be made more efficient , the committee noted that ‘ not all authorities are operating as efficiently as they might ’ and the greatest scope for improvement lay in assisting all authorities to reach the standard set by the best . |
| 29 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 30 | ‘ When the recovery does come , we will not benefit as quickly as we should . |