Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 4 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 5 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 6 | Molly asked Louise when the men were talking , so far as she could hear , about the rat race . |
| 7 | The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly . |
| 8 | No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows . |
| 9 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |
| 10 | But only the occasional innocent — so far as she could tell — twang of the springs of the hideous black and red sofa punctuated the interview . |
| 11 | So far as she could make out , Ven Gajdusek was more interested in enjoying his walk than he was in answering any of her questions . |
| 12 | She asked Mrs Phipps , as delicately as she could . |
| 13 | She made herself breathe through her mouth as slowly as she could to hush her own sounds , and inhaled the odours of the earth with her own warm respiration . |
| 14 | When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’ |
| 15 | As gently as she could , Ruth told her that Patrick had taken to his bed many years ago , finishing , ‘ It seems as if he 'll never get any better . |
| 16 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 17 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 18 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ Charity said , as gently as she could . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 23 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 24 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ( Menina was Portuguese for " Miss " , and Candida had called Sara that for as long as she could remember . ) |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 30 | She had basked in the knowledge for as long as she could remember . |