Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as she [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She opened the throttle again as she reached the quarter mile straight of Castle Walk
3 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 .
4 Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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