Example sentences of "[noun pl] as she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her .
2 Ma is trying to apologise for it with her eyes as she sucks khaki splodges from the sleeve of her cardigan .
3 Kate stopped in her tracks as she applied red lipstick .
4 Altogether , over a span of eleven years , Lottie Dod lost only five times in open singles as she collected five Wimbledon , five Northern , and three West of England titles , as well as one in Ireland and one at Waterloo .
5 She spent the next hour jotting down notes as she processed each disk .
6 The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time .
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