Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made a high arc , vanishing against the sun as she flung it as far as she could . |
| 2 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not saying kissing you was n't quite pleasant , as kisses go , ’ she informed him as calmly as she could , desperately trying to disguise the way her heart was pounding with fear as she recalled her reactions to that kiss . |
| 5 | Moving her arms to his neck , she clasped him as tight as she could and gave him back kiss for kiss . |
| 6 | Drawing back her arm , she hit him as hard as she could across the face . |
| 7 | In fact , in her continuing ‘ effort to be objective ’ , O'Keeffe based more and more of her imagery on observable forms in nature , and she represented them as exactly and precisely as she could . |
| 8 | ‘ Russell laughed , and we all laughed : she knew him as well as that . |
| 9 | Until then , she accepted it as graciously as she could for necessities only , much to her father 's irritation … |
| 10 | His fingers slipped between her thighs as she parted them as eagerly as a girl whose lover had returned from the wars . |