Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 2 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 3 | He stopped as abruptly as she had done . |
| 4 | Walking as slowly as she dared , Penelope was able to see that there were two figures in the room-Rupert himself and a woman , not very tall and wearing a dark , tweedy-looking suit . |
| 5 | The Baronne 's gathering frown dispersed almost magically as she espied a flat be-ribboned box on the tray . |
| 6 | She is expected to be seen only briefly as she steps from her wedding car — a four wheel drive Range Rover — into the church . |
| 7 | She 's just come out of Saint Mary 's did n't do as well as she thought , or everybody else hoped she would do in her A levels , so is now retaking one . |
| 8 | She drove as fast as she dared past the Jardin Anglais and at last swung out on to the Quai Gustav Ador . |
| 9 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 10 | So well had her work progressed at the Lodge , and so greatly — for all the discomfort — had she enjoyed her solitude , that Louisa momentarily tried defiance ; but she was shivering uncontrollably even as she did so . |
| 11 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 12 | The red bitch had returned , as insistent on food as ever , and limping only slightly as she trotted around , getting in the way , impeding Chola 's cooking . |
| 13 | Elinor was sometimes at a loss for the right word , or name , and then became impatient with herself ; she was often frustrated because she could n't move as swiftly as she did before . |
| 14 | God , it was bad enough masturbating as often as she did , without pushing her fingers up her arse . |
| 15 | She was desparetely unlucky to fall as badly as she did . |
| 16 | Mrs Ephraim Cook did not agree with her , believing that every child should learn to read as firmly as she believed they should wash behind their ears every morning and not relieve themselves , like dogs , in the street . |
| 17 | Her pace slowed even more as she thought of the house dark and sour with grief . |
| 18 | The silence between them seemed to lengthen interminably , and her nerves were stretched almost unbearably as she waited for his answer . |
| 19 | ‘ Why , Gina ? ’ he prompted again softly as she tried to arrange her jumbled thoughts to give a reason without betraying how deeply hurt she felt . |
| 20 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 21 | She stared straight ahead as she slid away . |
| 22 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 23 | She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant . |
| 24 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 25 | She has such a thirst after knowledge that the more she knows , I verily think the humbler she is , and I can not help letting go as fast as she pulls as my son used to do to his kite . |
| 26 | She could go as often as she wanted to the clinic , but they wo n't come out to her |
| 27 | Romance blossomed once again as she realised how close Neil had come to being killed . |
| 28 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |
| 29 | She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream . |
| 30 | Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital . |