Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh adv] hard she " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how hard she protested that The Delinquents was not soft porn , the film transformed her into the sex-siren she secretly desired to become . |
| 2 | The world , thought Wilson that night , was crumbling around her no matter how hard she tried . |
| 3 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 4 | But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp . |
| 5 | But because of the storm the hatches had been battened down and no matter how hard she searched she could not find a way out of the hold . |
| 6 | The door would n't open , no matter how hard she shoved . |
| 7 | Beside him , Melanie was acutely conscious of her clumsy hands and the long legs she could not arrange elegantly , no matter how hard she tried . |
| 8 | She swayed to and fro ; she almost slipped down onto the ground beside the dead queen in the mud but Finn kept hold of her no matter how hard she struck at him , lightly clasping her shoulders so that she would not fall . |
| 9 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 10 | She possessed a vivid imagination , but somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could not envisage herself ever calling this man Alexander . |
| 11 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 12 | But , no matter how hard she fought to squash it , a flicker of excitement continued to torment her , like the buzz of a mosquito that just would n't go away . |
| 13 | No matter how hard she tries to give up , she still admits to smoking the occasional cigarette . |