Example sentences of "[adv] as he want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much as he wanted to , and much as he had been moved by her tears , he could not find it in him to forgive her . |
| 2 | Much as he wanted to pound Ralf into the mud , he contented himself with sending the fellow a narrow-eyed glare which brought a look of respectful caution to the pedlar 's usually cheerful countenance . |
| 3 | Eventually the carabiniere got bored and let Eric stay in the lavatory for as long as he wanted . |
| 4 | She had to talk for as long as he wanted and it was a long time . |
| 5 | Darlington Tory association chairman Bill Smith said in Saturday 's story that Fallon could have the constituency nomination so long as he wanted it . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's there for as long as he wants to be , ’ said Eaton . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ If things keep going well , Trevor can be at Hillsborough for as long as he wants . |
| 8 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 9 | Fry claimed he was sacked by Flashman but the latter responded by saying Fry has a job at Underhill for as long as he wants it . |
| 10 | Disgruntled at not being attended to immediately , especially as he wanted to buy a large country mansion , he stormed out and decided to buy an estate in France instead . |
| 11 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 12 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 13 | Just as he wanted to assert Romanian sovereignty , Ceauşescu found his economy increasingly inter-twined with Gorbachev 's . |
| 14 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 15 | You never could tell with Felipe de Santis and at the moment things were just as he wanted them . |
| 16 | just as he wanted them , there was real oldy-worldy and the kitchen furniture was made down at Buckfastely in Devon and that was all re-claim pine |
| 17 | This is just as he wants it . |
| 18 | He 's getting me to behave exactly as he wants . |
| 19 | All my answers had to be in the affirmative with the exception of the last one because , to be precise , Holmes does exactly as he wants . |
| 20 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 21 | And he , well he 's , he was wealthy enough to do exactly as he wanted . |
| 22 | James stuck his hands in his pockets moodily as he want back into Blue Horizons trying to think carefully about what he 'd overheard that Saturday afternoon , and how he could turn it to his advantage . |
| 23 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |