Example sentences of "[verb] as he might " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , evade and evade as he might , in the end he had to come to it : did he love Jane Postlethwaite ? |
| 2 | " I 'm sorry , " he said , sounding as he might have sounded yesterday . |
| 3 | Strict laws regulated every aspect of slave behaviour , restricting the slave 's right to travel , to defend himself against attacks by whites , and to use as he might wish what little leisure time was available . |
| 4 | But how likely was Dr. Greene , experienced as he might be in viewing bodies , to disagree with the opinion of a consultant forensic pathologist unless the latter 's judgment was manifestly perverse ? |
| 5 | Meanwhile Aureole had got into top gear and came through into second place , but try as he might he could never pose a threat to Pinza , who galloped on relentlessly to win by four lengths , with Pink Horse running on to take third place a length and a half further adrift and the gallant Shikampur a tired fourth . |
| 6 | He held on desperately to the dead weight fish , but try as he might , he was unable to regain his feet . |
| 7 | There were gaps last night — he had no idea the when of his visit to the hospital : if he had come straight home or stayed out drinking — that , try as he might , Parker could not remember . |
| 8 | Try as he might to gain entry , the doors of the Viceroy 's House remained closed to him . |
| 9 | Try as he might , George could find nothing attractive in the frowning features and almost bald head . |
| 10 | Try as he might , the man could not cast out this devil of himself . |
| 11 | Try as he might , he could not read the letter without feeling sexual overtones . |
| 12 | Try as he might , he could not get those two incidents out of his mind . |
| 13 | Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John . |
| 14 | Try as he might it is clear that he can not make the economic figures add up , creative accounting or not , in a way which will make the parliamentary Tory Party arithmetic secure . |