Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] as we [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could .
2 If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can .
3 We were to discover what opportunities there were , and use them as fully as we could .
4 Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can .
5 We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances .
6 We followed him as quietly as we could .
7 If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death .
8 We ran after it as fast as we could .
9 ’ And as soon as she disappears , we beat it as fast as we can .
10 We are dealing with it as well as we can in the circumstances and are beginning to have some real effect .
11 It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could .
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