Example sentences of "[pron] as she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were old and had forgotten , if ever they had known , what it was like to love someone as she loved Rob . |
| 2 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 3 | Theda 's eyes met the scorching flame in his as she rose shakily to her feet to face him . |
| 4 | She shrugged , feeling her skin sliding against his as she moved . |
| 5 | You 're going too fast for me , thought Leith , but her voice was every bit as aggressive as his as she spat , ‘ I 'm not with you ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You would have spent the night in my arms , Caroline , ’ he caught her hands in one of his as she began to raise them , ‘ crying out my name as I touched you , begging me to take you over and over again , until finally the sun chased away the darkness . ’ |
| 7 | He was talking to himself as she approached and when he saw her he immediately huddled further into the doorway . |
| 8 | The woman who sells you a ticket at the bus office crosses herself for you as she makes it out . |
| 9 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 10 | Ana may confide in you as she would never confide in me . |
| 11 | Slackening her step , she felt hope renewing itself as she strolled along the pavements past tubs of flowering plants interspersed with benches crowded with people resting their tired feet or simply sitting back and enjoying the sunshine while they watched the passers-by . |
| 12 | Only she said something as she was leaving — ’ |
| 13 | Not his old one as she had been promised . |
| 14 | It is regrettable , Elisabeth observed to herself as she climbed through the dunes , that clever men do not always make consoling company . |
| 15 | No doubt she 'd soon get used to it she told herself as she followed Kerly down a metal spiral staircase . |
| 16 | The woman , who had decided that she should drive during the morning and he in the afternoon , hummed softly to herself as she drove east along the coast . |
| 17 | All the same , it was surprising that Nick dealt with him , Kelly thought to herself as she drove her car down the drive of the Stud . |
| 18 | Why not come out arid say it in this day and age , she muttered to herself as she dialled the number . |
| 19 | A BIG star of 1993 will be Sadie Frost , 25 , above , already making a big name for herself as she sinks her teeth into Dracula . |
| 20 | Elizabeth Titford , the mother , must have needed a bit of Christian faith herself as she grew older and struggled to live through the hard times which were a mark of the 1820s with its long and painful inflation . |
| 21 | She seemed to be talking to herself as she gazed into the fire . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope they 're not bloody Jehovah 's Witnesses , ’ she muttered to herself as she bent to release the chain , a cigarette clamped between her teeth . |
| 23 | She had her suitcase open on the bed and was muttering to herself as she took clothes out of drawers and threw them in . |
| 24 | Carrie sighed to herself as she threw the soiled towelling napkin in an enamel bucket at her feet and placed the dean and folded napkin under the baby 's bottom . |
| 25 | Carrie 's bright blue eyes mirrored her good health and she hummed happily to herself as she brushed down her best coat . |
| 26 | She alighted from the train at East 74th Street and whistled softly to herself as she walked the two hundred yards down 72nd Street from the subway to her ground-floor bachelor flat . |
| 27 | I must n't go the wrong way , Alice thought to herself as she made her way to the platform . |
| 28 | Shirley smiled sourly to herself as she poured gravy . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 30 | Violette stopped herself as she caught the expression on Katherine 's face . |