Example sentences of "[adv] as [pron] [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as it pained her to meekly obey , Shannon clambered slowly to her feet , muttering darkly beneath her breath . |
| 2 | Much as it infuriated her , Shannon knew when she was beaten . |
| 3 | She tutted aloud as she remembered she had nearly quailed altogether and quit him when he caressed her so directly and bit her ; but he was masterful , and had knowledge , and her love burst into ever greater intensity at the thought of that expertise . |
| 4 | She liked us to keep to our promise , but quite understood if the children were ill , or something else cropped up , and we got behind — so long as we let her know immediately . |
| 5 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 6 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 7 | Her friends back in London would never have recognised her as the Alyssia Stanley who had dozens of men trailing behind her , and who toyed with them but only for as long as it suited her . |
| 8 | ‘ Only for as long as it took her to latch on to another driver , ’ Vitor said drily . |
| 9 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 10 | He was secure enough to turn his back , to show me the two foul moons of his backside , heaving up and down as he ground her into the floor . |
| 11 | Herta kept her head down as I helped her off with her coat . |
| 12 | The words ended on a grim note , while a small frown drew his brows together as he regarded her . |
| 13 | Luke moved so fast that she had no time to back away as he turned her into his arms and held her to him , so close that she could feel the hard outline of his thighs through the damp towel , the heavy steady beat of his heart against her breast . |
| 14 | In her mind 's eye Lisa could see those hostile dark eyebrows lifting magisterially as he assured her , ‘ But the most important appointment you have today is with me . |
| 15 | But he was smiling broadly as he held her away to arm 's length . |
| 16 | Liz Spalding straightened from the table , smiling broadly as she stretched her aching back . |
| 17 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |
| 18 | I 've spoken to Ockleton , just as Heather did , and what he told me has led me here , just as it led her . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 20 | He knew he would get no more out of her , just as he knew she was getting impatient . |
| 21 | Just as he reached her , the Whale surged upwards again and Miles was caught by the wave . |
| 22 | She just toppled over as I touched her . |
| 23 | ‘ Every Brownie must stay exactly as I put her — on the ground . |
| 24 | ‘ We had the mare to break early this year , ’ said rider Barbara Gallimore , ‘ and knew as soon as we saw her that she would win Olympia . |
| 25 | As soon as they arrived she saw , about half a mile away , a tall figure in a cloak , with a wide-brimmed black hat . |
| 26 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 27 | Every solid fact slipped out of Blanche 's grasp as soon as she believed she grasped it . |
| 28 | When she arrived at Lynx some hours later she found that the door to the office was propped open , and as soon as she entered she understood the reason . |
| 29 | Quigley had made sure he had stopped hitting me as soon as he heard her on the stairs . |
| 30 | Then , when the owner returned , he would know who was responsible , and as soon as he contacted her she 'd be only too happy to provide him with details of the accident . |