Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura could n't seem to tear her eyes away as she absorbed the man 's hawk-like , tanned face and the sensual appeal of his tall , broad-shouldered body elegantly clad in a black long-tailed jacket and dark-striped trousers . |
| 2 | Rain heard her flow of talk about the journey from Nice break off as she noticed the view from the window , an oppressive sky , a turbulent sea . |
| 3 | She noticed Ian flush as she retailed the little she knew of their contents . |
| 4 | She opened the throttle again as she reached the quarter mile straight of Castle Walk |
| 5 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 6 | There were no sounds aboard as she crossed the gangway . |
| 7 | ‘ I have , ’ said Aunt Lou fortissimo as she led the way into her ground floor flat , ‘ made us bean casserole . ’ |
| 8 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 9 | FILM star Audrey Hepburn fought back tears yesterday as she re-lived the horrors of famine-stricken Somalia . |
| 10 | Pete stood on the porch and tried to make Alina out as she climbed the path toward the highest part of the headland . |
| 11 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 12 | Despair washed through Isabel again as she remembered the cutting disdain in fitzAlan 's eyes , too distressed at the moment to be angered by his instant acceptance of Matilda 's explanation . |
| 13 | Julia admits that she resents linguistic laws just as she resents the canon law of the Church : ‘ I 'm interested in language as a process , not a thing or an essence . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you sure she wo n't mind a total stranger calling on her ? ’ asked Melissa doubtfully as she took the proffered piece of paper . |
| 15 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 16 | Her face set in a mask of intense fury , she slammed the doors hard as she left the court . |