Example sentences of "[adv] as he might " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had found her — and he used the word much as he might of finding a particularly beautiful sea-washed stone — one late June afternoon the previous year . |
| 2 | ‘ Paint ? ’ he queried , as though it was an item he 'd never come across , much as he might have sounded if she 'd said she was going to buy a giraffe , she thought on a spurt of amusement . |
| 3 | It means that the supplier can not , much as he might like to , charge an unreasonably high price . |
| 4 | Eliot himself might not have recognized them , just as he might have considered negligible the surface of his life which is apparent to biographers . |
| 5 | If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope . |
| 6 | The recording catches the players rather forcefully , and the balance between guitar and string quartet is not always well managed : that is not the engineer 's fault so much as Boccherini 's who did not always judge texture as well as he might . |
| 7 | This did not go down as well as he might have hoped . |
| 8 | For example , loud clothing will create the disturbing feeling among the Japanese businessmen that the foreigner has perhaps failed to take them as seriously as he might have , by failing to observe that the common practice in dress in Japan is some degree of formality . |