adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
can
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You should make it as happy as you possibly can .
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Get as many intelligent citizens as you possibly can to write urgently upon this subject to their representatives and Senators in Congress.
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You can not blame him for trying to cram as much into 90 minutes as he possibly can.
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We all want to put the best team on the ice as we possibly can .
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As for crime and robberies, that is carrying just as heavy a burden now as it possibly can .
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Memphis Archives has made these 24 recorded relics sound as good as primitive recordings possibly can .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's going to stay at least three weeks, possibly longer.
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He's playing in the US Open Golf Championships - possibly for the last time.
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How could anyone possibly do that to her?
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I have everything I could possibly need.
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Many analysts believe interest rates will rise, possibly as early as next spring.
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Stone is possibly America's finest film director.
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The cancer was possibly caused by exposure to asbestos.
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The examination hall was vast, with at least 700 or 800 student and quite possibly as many as 1000.
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Trade between the two countries began in the 11th century, possibly even earlier.
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You can't possibly go to all those stores in one day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Could it possibly apply to human beings?
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He looked at me as though I were very young and possibly a trifle slow.
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In the following pages a number of the more visible and possibly more successful and productive organizations are identified and described.
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No-one else can possibly picture what you suffer.
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No such claim could possibly be made for the Smolensk, Kursk, or Poltava gubernii.
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The cilia in the respiratory tract hasten the exit from the body of possibly harmful foreign material.
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They may insist on payment by instalments, possibly spread throughout the whole of your notice period.