Example sentences of "as [adv] as she could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked Mrs Phipps , as delicately as she could . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 6 | Grimma caught him and laid him down as gently as she could . |
| 7 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ Charity said , as gently as she could . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After school , she took as long as she could dawdling back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember . |
| 12 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 13 | She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( Menina was Portuguese for " Miss " , and Candida had called Sara that for as long as she could remember . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 19 | She had basked in the knowledge for as long as she could remember . |
| 20 | Yet for as long as she could remember she 'd been instructed to do so . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She intended holding on to this new inner peace for as long as she could . |
| 23 | For as long as she could remember , her hair had been kept in a short no-nonsense style that would n't require any of her precious time to look after it . |
| 24 | She avoided returning to Matthew Blake 's table for as long as she could without giving him the power of knowing she was avoiding him . |
| 25 | She held his look , her head high , for as long as she could — all of about five seconds . |
| 26 | She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sam 's mother endured it as patiently as she could . |
| 29 | As swiftly as she could she dropped the dress over her head and wriggled into it — only to emerge from its temporary darkness to see Luke Hunter 's eyes upon her , and a look of mocking appreciation on his face . |
| 30 | Opening it wide , she shouted as loud as she could : ‘ I 'm warning you lot , one more noise and I 'll come up there and scalp the arses off yer ! ’ |