Example sentences of "[adv] as she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn walked forward into the brightly lit , ultra-modern kitchen as purposefully as she could manage and took the mug of steaming coffee he held out to her with shaking hands . |
| 2 | Much as she might have wanted to help , Diana was in no position to give Charles the attention he needed . |
| 3 | His wife , much as she might boast of the intellect of her pick-ups , could n't pretend they were pleasing to the eye . |
| 4 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 5 | Much as she liked him , much as she would miss his companionship , it seemed to her that the relationship had reached a dead end . |
| 6 | Much as she would have liked to stay , Penny had to hurry home with her budgie , but she learned later that Brownie Owl got the puppy out of the tree and took it home and gave it food . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ Ellie added as fiercely as she could . |
| 8 | Just in case , Thérèse performed as many acts of mortification daily as she could think of . |
| 9 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 10 | Angela has been fascinated by antiques for as long as she can remember . |
| 11 | Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember . |
| 12 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 13 | The writing has been a hobby for Vanessa for as long as she can remember but she has recently started trying to turn it to profit . |
| 14 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 15 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 16 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 17 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 18 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 19 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 20 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 21 | ( Menina was Portuguese for " Miss " , and Candida had called Sara that for as long as she could remember . ) |
| 22 | For the first time she felt a faint stirring of compassion for her own mother , whose obsession with her appearance , shopping , flirtation and gossip Julia had despised for as long as she could remember . |
| 23 | For as long as she could remember she had herself been in love with the man who led the greyhounds and their attendants on a dignified procession round the track before the race began . |
| 24 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 25 | She had basked in the knowledge for as long as she could remember . |
| 26 | He felt warm and solid , safe , and , so long as she could n't see the mockery that sometimes filled his eyes , she could pretend , could n't she ? |
| 27 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 28 | Yet for as long as she could remember she 'd been instructed to do so . |
| 29 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 30 | She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière . |