Example sentences of "as she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip . |
| 2 | As Queen of the United Kingdom , visiting India as she might visit France or Israel ? |
| 3 | Phoebe could not , try as she might , despise it for her , because it was so obviously making Lisa happy ; while she , clinging to a nostalgic and increasingly sentimental vision of the household , was patently not happy , not useful , and not passionate . |
| 4 | ’ Sheila said this in much the tone of incredulity as she might have said , ‘ If I ever die . ’ |
| 5 | Much as she might have wanted to help , Diana was in no position to give Charles the attention he needed . |
| 6 | She was pale , but not as shocked as she might have been . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , nothing sent her to sleep like the human voice , and , struggle as she might , she kept dropping off , then waking with a start . |
| 8 | His wife , much as she might boast of the intellect of her pick-ups , could n't pretend they were pleasing to the eye . |
| 9 | She had said it , just in the way she said all things , as she might say , it is cold , your hair is brown , the sky is cloudy , and Gaily had come to accept her words implicitly . |
| 10 | But , cling as she might to the bolster she had taken with her to stop her screams , she could not stop shaking . |
| 11 | The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms . |
| 12 | Try as she might , memories of her true love faded before the fascination of satin and velvet , furs and pearls , braids and laces . |
| 13 | You 'll find her not so well-tempered as she might seem ! ’ |
| 14 | He had gone out of her life suddenly and without explanation and try as she might Theresa simply could not get over losing him . |
| 15 | Search as she might , Tamar could find nothing of herself in Hilary . |
| 16 | Flighty as she might have been until then , Liza Tremayne was still a virgin . |
| 17 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 18 | Try as she might , it was impossible to keep the loft as clean as she would have liked . |
| 19 | Nothing she said , just a way she has of slightly turning and doing something else and not replying as quickly as she might . |
| 20 | And she said it with such pride and such display that Clara did not feel at all obliged to conceal the amazement and delight that she felt , as she might , if confronted with a more worldly modesty , have done : for Clelia 's manner declared , this is singular this is beautiful , this may legitimately amaze , you betray no innocence in admiring this . |
| 21 | She was puzzled only by the unmistakable largesse of the confidence proffered to her , because try as she might , she could not persuade herself that Clelia could talk like this , so wittily and intimately and inquiringly , to everyone ; she could not believe that she could talk like this to many . |
| 22 | Molly 's sleep had been deep and dreamless but she woke up early , saw Hugh unconscious beside her and replaced the sheet he had kicked away as she might cover one of the children . |
| 23 | And he did n't take much interest in my mother either and that put enough emotional pressure on her to maybe no , not be such a good mother as she might otherwise have been . |
| 24 | On the third day , she was taken for interrogation , and try as she might , she could n't stop the butterflies in her stomach . |
| 25 | Try as she might , she could n't sound normal . |
| 26 | Scarlet did n't argue as she might have done if she had n't had a large vodka . |
| 27 | On a sudden impulse , she reached up to him ( but not as far as she might otherwise have had to do , because of the heels ) and slipped her hands behind his head . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Try as she might , her working relationship with Stephanie Marsa was strained to say the least . |
| 30 | Hate it as she might it would be harder to stop than to go on , almost like riding a tiger . |