Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as anyone could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hepburns proved hardly more reliable , but did keep a hold on the castle and — so far as anyone could keep a hold on such a region — the lordship of Liddesdale . |
| 2 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 3 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 4 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 5 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 6 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 7 | For as long as anyone could remember the council had been overwhelmingly Labour , and all the MPs came from the ranks of the party . |
| 8 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 9 | I want to repeat that the line was faint but it was definately Dr Kemp on the phone and that what I wrote was as near as anyone could get to what he said . |
| 10 | All he needed — as far as anyone could make out from the hogsheads of salted pilchards that were assembled in two separate groups at the harbour — was one more good catch and victory , together with Martha 's hand , would be his . |
| 11 | This was , as far as anyone could remember , the first , and last , occasion on which Richard Branson had allowed sentiment to interfere with business . |
| 12 | As far as anyone could make out none of the hostages whose lives had been threatened earlier in the year had actually been harmed , but the stream of communiqués from the groups had dried up . |
| 13 | In as far as anyone could hope to be in the bitterly envious soil of the SIS , Foley was unblemished . |