Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] as i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Sometimes she came home just as I was due to leave , or vice versa . |
| 7 | ‘ I came as fast as I could . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I came as quickly as I could . |
| 9 | In the evenings I studied as hard as I could , educating myself for Estella . |
| 10 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 11 | The tears flowed more freely as I bowed my head and the shame and repentance and the wonderful joy of salvation mixed their ingredients in my soul . |
| 12 | I commented as far as I am prepared to a moment ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Stormed around for a few days , lobbied as hard as I could and got on with my job . |
| 14 | I turned as far as I could without rocking or creaking , but I could n't see him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And I walked as normally as I could into the playground , my private pain overcome for fear of discovery . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 19 | I translated as well as I could a Scottish strath with its green basin , and the heather slopes rising from it lost to rabbits and sheep and rock . |
| 20 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 21 | ‘ He flew away just as I 'd nearly got him . ’ |
| 22 | Thank you very much to those who volunteered , or who were volunteered to help , especially to who worked as hard as I did to get the whole thing set up . |
| 23 | ‘ I putted as well as I have all year . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps I never read Paradise Lost as carefully as I should have , ’ he said . |
| 25 | As his huge foot rose over my head , I screamed as loudly as I could . |
| 26 | I just screamed as loudly as I could — more from the shock than anything else , and I did n't stop crying for several hours afterwards . |
| 27 | We had six minutes to eat lunch , so I stuffed bread , yoghourt , fish stew and beans into my mouth , and chewed as fast as I could . |
| 28 | I stopped the boat and drifted as near as I dared . |
| 29 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 30 | In his preface to The Reformed Pastor he wrote , ‘ I am daily forced to admire how lamentably ignorant many of our people are , that have seemed diligent hearers of me these ten or twelve years , while I spoke as plainly as I was able to speak . |