Example sentences of "as [pron] could get " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was as far as I could get by water . |
| 2 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 3 | All the trees ( except the hollies ) were bare-rooted transplants and as small as I could get them . |
| 4 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It 's as much as I could get so quickly . |
| 7 | I do n't mind as long as I could get rid of my cold . |
| 8 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 9 | The trial unmasked him as a complete charlatan and , in the words of one detective , ‘ as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get ’ . |
| 10 | Detective Inspector Mike Bennett said : ‘ He was as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get . |
| 11 | It was as green a light as you could get for the never-ending demands for U-turns from Mr Gould , followed by several Shadow Cabinet colleagues . |
| 12 | And then in these days there were pits for going underneath the cars er dug into the ground so as you could get underneath the cars . |
| 13 | Some might think Langholm an unlikely location for a PLC head office — about as far from the madding crowd as you could get . |
| 14 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 15 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 16 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 17 | She obeyed and he watched with still , dark eyes until she was as far as she could get from the trembling animal . |
| 18 | It looked cool in there , peaceful , and it was as far away from Luke Denner and the barn as she could get . |
| 19 | Early that afternoon , as soon as she could get away from a lunch with colleagues from her department , Loretta set off for the Sunday Herald building . |
| 20 | There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get . |
| 21 | Having released two singles — ‘ June ’ — and ‘ Childhood Revisited ’ — in the late eighties on an independent label — Ashanti recorded a demo containing a song called ‘ Real World ’ , which was despatched to Polygram and , according to Boyd , ‘ within 20 minutes they were prepared to make us an offer which , at the time , was as good as we could get . |
| 22 | I was hoping to see Laura Channing alone , or as near alone as we could get in that hullaballoo . |
| 23 | ‘ It was as near to an MBO as we could get . ’ |
| 24 | When we got there one o one of the other boys was was already there with him and he was covered from about his waist down with coal and er we uncovered him and gave him as comfortable as we could get him until we got the stretchers and everything mobilize him and get him out . |
| 25 | ‘ It was as far as we could get , ’ explained Farag , ‘ because then the ghaffir came back . ’ |
| 26 | So this is as big as we could get without it falling apart , so it 's a nice handleable book , though a little heavy . |
| 27 | ‘ You may have thought that things had gotten to be as bad as they could get , but Mr Koons ' show proves you were wrong , ’ wrote one particularly shrill reviewer . |
| 28 | Now the Charskys were scraping together , mostly from abroad , as many books on the subject as they could get . |
| 29 | He did suggest that Sir Archibald send out a couple of scouts to as close as they could get to the enemy camp without being noticed , to send back word of any development there . |
| 30 | And , and were prepared to do the work so long as they could get the say so from erm the Highways Authority . |