Example sentences of "just as she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had seemed to him perfectly reasonable that she should eventually wish to marry , just as she might choose , in a fit of boredom or acquisitiveness to buy herself a fur coat or a new item of jewellery . |
| 2 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 3 | The war , she told herself , would end one day , but love was timeless and she would fight for it , just as she would fight to give her child his father 's company . |
| 4 | Her arms enclosed him just as she would wish to be clasped and comforted . |
| 5 | Her voice was firm , gay , just as she would wish . |
| 6 | She would never forsake Tara , of course , just as she would never forget Fergus . |
| 7 | For a moment he was still , apparently watching her , then , just as she would have turned away from his apparent scrutiny , he said , ‘ Come on , I 'll race you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She 's with her husband , just as she should be . ’ |
| 9 | A mature , non-exploitative , separated relationship between mother and daughter begins as each accepts that the other can not be perfectly available or responsive to her just as she can not be perfectly available and responsive to the other . ’ |
| 10 | And just as she will not keep the caterpillar restricted to one plane of vision , so also she avoids obsessively restricting herself to the object . |
| 11 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 12 | It was as if she was n't married ; just as it had been before , going to bed in her pink and white room , setting off for the ‘ Craft Basket ’ at half-past eight in the morning , just as she used to set off for school , home by five thirty , tea , telly , and some needlework to keep herself occupied . |