Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think she ought to do exactly as she wishes , Mama . |
| 2 | She 'll hold off as long as she can ; we wo n't get much of a view , and they are saying shore batteries could n't do her much damage . |
| 3 | She 'll ring again as soon as she tumbles to what she 's done . ’ |
| 4 | I made the mistake of giving in too often and paying her so much attention that eventually she felt she could do exactly as she pleased . |
| 5 | If she married Pogo , she could do exactly as she pleased and she would be mistress of her own home . |
| 6 | ‘ If we do n't move Seawitch she could end up as wreckage on the rocks — that 's what you said . |
| 7 | ‘ Many people thought she could leave off as she liked ’ , and others ‘ slandered and reproved her ’ for not looking after her home and children . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening . |
| 9 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 10 | That summer her island trip was to Thásos , and I was particularly glad that she would go there as it entails flying to Kaválla , which can be the most desirable flight that a woman can make in Greece . |
| 11 | She would come back as soon as she could . |
| 12 | She will respond intuitively as she senses the class 's needs , or , rather , she may have to respond to the class 's wants . |