Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as i [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I came as quickly as I could . |
| 11 | In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do n't work as hard as I used to . |
| 14 | I could n't run as fast as I would have liked . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm waiting as patiently as I can but it 's getting a pain now . |
| 18 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |
| 19 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can , ’ cried Endill . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going as fast as I can . ’ |
| 26 | I 've got a shattered arm as well which means that I can really use only one arm , but I have to keep the muscles in the other one going as far as I can . ’ |
| 27 | I turned as far as I could without rocking or creaking , but I could n't see him . |
| 28 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 29 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 30 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |