Example sentences of "as she [was/were] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 2 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
| 3 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 4 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 5 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |