Example sentences of "for [adv] [adv] as she could " in BNC.

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1 She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright .
2 For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners .
3 Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway .
4 Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember .
5 They went up to the small room where Eve had lived for as long as she could remember .
6 They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could .
7 She fought it for as long as she could , but it was such a silly thing .
8 Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember .
9 For the first time she felt a faint stirring of compassion for her own mother , whose obsession with her appearance , shopping , flirtation and gossip Julia had despised for as long as she could remember .
10 For as long as she could remember she had herself been in love with the man who led the greyhounds and their attendants on a dignified procession round the track before the race began .
11 My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could .
12 She had basked in the knowledge for as long as she could remember .
13 Yet for as long as she could remember she 'd been instructed to do so .
14 She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière .
15 She intended holding on to this new inner peace for as long as she could .
16 For as long as she could remember , her hair had been kept in a short no-nonsense style that would n't require any of her precious time to look after it .
17 She avoided returning to Matthew Blake 's table for as long as she could without giving him the power of knowing she was avoiding him .
18 She had no intention whatsoever of breakfasting with him , though , and stayed in her room for as long as she could bear it .
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