Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] as she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ate as directed by Taggy , and made no fuss when that dame looked after her much as she had herself done for her deceased employer — nursing her and acting as lady 's maid , and combing out her troublesome copper hair , until Theda felt strong enough to perform this office for herself . |
| 2 | That was the night Ellie vowed she would never cry in front of anyone again as she lay among the boxes . |
| 3 | ‘ You need your eyes tested , ’ she said to herself finally as she trudged on up the steps , the melting ice-creams dripping all over her fingers . |
| 4 | She smiled to herself now as she drove through the outskirts of Edinburgh , eyes fixed like limpets on the black Mercedes in front of her — if she lost sight of Jake now , she was done for ! |
| 5 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 6 | President Mobutu 's face nods on her behind as she pounds plantain in an ebony mortar and then slices the yellow dough with cotton thread . |
| 7 | She was getting quite neurotic , Harriet reflected , and the same thought occurred to her now as she checked her image in the full length mirror , tucking her camisole top more neatly in at the waist of her pants and straightening the ornamental clasp of the loose belt she had fastened around her hips . |
| 8 | The elegance of his own style , the willingness of the assistants , the feeling that an endless flow of joy emanated from this eccentric and astute little man , the jade-green charm of the suit that was eventually chosen , the reserve , the luxury , the civilization of that day came back to her now as she stood gazing at iron scaffolding , aware of drunks in the square opposite and the depression that had undermined the world , and her , since the buoyancy of that radiant and particular day . |
| 9 | ‘ There seemed to be some doubt in your mind about my exact gender , ’ Maggie put in drily , and he cast her an irritated look , his dark eyes running over her again as she sat facing him , her hands in the pockets of the loose shirt . |
| 10 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 11 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 12 | The koko serves us tea respectfully , although she smiles at me complicitly as she hands me my mug . |
| 13 | A woman with a dog stared at them curiously as she passed . |
| 14 | My wife was of no service at all in the crisis and I could only look up at her reproachfully as she leaned against the doorpost dabbing at her eyes . |
| 15 | The clerk looked at her oddly as she took her purse out of her school satchel and carefully counted out the exact money . |
| 16 | The man looked at her carefully as she nodded . |
| 17 | Amabel smiled at her now as she sat by Gemma 's bedside tranquilly embroidering a cambric handkerchief , patient and beautiful as an angel and so terribly wronged . |
| 18 | He looked at her questioningly as she hesitated . |
| 19 | It amused him even more and he looked down at her quizzically as she wrenched her arm from his grasp . |
| 20 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
| 21 | Doreen looked at him pleadingly as she persisted , ‘ I thought it would be so nice for — for married couples — ’ |
| 22 | She paused , then changed the subject by looking at him expectantly as she said , ‘ Have n't you things to show me about the running of this office ? ’ |
| 23 | She paused , looking at him thoughtfully as she went on , ‘ Now you know why I 'm here . |
| 24 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |