Example sentences of "[adv] as i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I pay for the time , ’ the landlord defended himself , though not as intimidatingly as I could have hoped . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't let her trouble you , especially as I could tell she 'd no good news . ’ |
| 5 | I was ashamed of him , especially as I could see Estella laughing at me over Miss Havisham 's shoulder . |
| 6 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 7 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 8 | My Houy master was very interested in me , and as soon as I could speak the language , he asked me to explain where I had come from . |
| 9 | As soon as I could walk straight , I got out . |
| 10 | I decided then that , as soon as I could afford it , I 'd build myself a house here by the sea . |
| 11 | Miss Priss on a silk cushion , yowling my bahoolas off as soon as I could run away . ’ |
| 12 | So as soon as I could get away I went to your hotel , only to be told that you had left shortly after your colleagues . ’ |
| 13 | Apparently as soon as I could read I always had my nose stuck in a book . |
| 14 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 15 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 16 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 17 | As far as I could discover , there is no suggestion that the residents in the defined area for our research see themselves as constituting a socially relevant or meaningful whole . |
| 18 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 19 | Oh , roamed about all over Earth , as far as I could make out , travelled on foot across huge mountain ranges and vast great deserts where nothing lived . |
| 20 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 21 | The experience as far as I could gather never disappoints : because of its own unique qualities , but also because of the attention we all pay it . |
| 22 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 23 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
| 24 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 25 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 26 | " As far as I could gather , what he was saying was some nonsense about the Easter Fete . |
| 27 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 28 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 29 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 30 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |