Example sentences of "[det] as [pers pn] wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , as much as we wanted to keep her , we were out at work all day , and lived in a flat without a garden . |
| 2 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 3 | He let her see just as much as he wanted to reveal , and no more . |
| 4 | As much as she loved Lizzy , and as much as she wanted to help her , without her job they would all be up a creek without a paddle . |
| 5 | Wainfleet refused to tell her any more as he wanted to pump her about Hunter-Blair . |
| 6 | Little as he wanted to do anything about it , the boy 's babyishness , his Fauntleroy air , embarrassed and distantly annoyed him : it seemed to reflect on his own manhood . |
| 7 | A meeting of all the tourists would be summoned straightaway ( Ashenden felt a pair of unblinking blue eyes upon him ) — summoned to meet somewhere in the hotel ( the Manager nodded again — the St John 's Suite was free ) , and Morse himself would then address the group and tell them as much or as little as he wanted to tell them , believing , he admitted , that Rumour had probably lost little of her sprinting speed since Virgil 's time , and that most of the tourists already had a pretty good idea of what had happened . |