Example sentences of "as she [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Crawling a little closer to the heat , she wrapped herself up and lay down , pillowing her head on her arm as she stared at the flickering flames .
2 Shock flooded her as she stared at the tall , dark-haired , dark-eyed man , who seemed in those initial moments not to be believing his eyes either .
3 Her face reflecting her disgust , and horror as she stared at the other woman , Ellie turned to glance at Feargal to see how he might be taking this insulting piece of arrant mischief-making , and was astonished to see that he looked not angry , but almost sad .
4 Caroline 's voice was an appalled croak as she stared at the new arrival .
5 ‘ Our King John ? ’ she asked in surprise as she stared at the ruined fort that overlooked the lough .
6 As she waited at the only traffic lights in the main street , her attention was caught as a man came out from a hardware shop .
7 Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches .
8 Her deeply lined face was creased into a smile as she gazed at the tiny ear in her hand .
9 As she stiffened at the implied doubt Michele rasped , ‘ I must congratulate you . ’
10 And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there .
11 As she looked at the tiny bundle she said drily : ‘ Thank goodness he has n't got ears like his father . ’
12 As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street .
13 Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed .
14 Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman .
15 Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind .
16 As she looked at the soft golden panelling , more of which emerged every day , the pleasure of her victory washed over Sara anew .
17 Nevertheless Cara smiled at them that morning , as she smiled at the frail , clerical-looking gentleman who was both their saviour and their torment , the pawnbroker who held his court on one corner of St Jude 's Passage , the other corner housing the red-headed madam of the fringed shawl who did not emerge from behind her green shutters so early in the day .
18 That was it , Julia said to herself , as she sat at the big scrubbed table in the Florentine kitchen , all those years and a thousand miles away .
19 Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom .
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