Example sentences of "as she [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister herself had reaffirmed her commitment to the " founding principles " of the service in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 1982 as she sought to allay public suspicion that the health service might not be safe in her hands . |
| 2 | As she had suffered one setback after another-no money , another still birth , one or other of the boys in trouble with the police — she had turned more and more to the church . |
| 3 | In 1975 she had had to give up her job as a council clerkess as she had contracted asbestos-related pleurisy and pleural thickening . |
| 4 | As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen . |
| 5 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 6 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 7 | She would live as long as she had to see Elder Seth dead , and then she would think again … |
| 8 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 9 | She was in flight from it — as she had imagined that woman in the rain in flight . |
| 10 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 11 | There would be no clues , no fingerprints , nothing to lead the police to them , but she knew who they were , just as she had known last night who had wrecked her car . |
| 12 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 13 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 14 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 15 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 16 | Everything in Fabia cried out as she started to panic that Ven might yet hit on the truth of her love for him . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're off to write prayers , ’ said Mrs Quigley , answering for her , as she tended to do these days . |
| 18 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 19 | It continued to engage her thoughts as she sat knitting that afternoon . |
| 20 | Kim , who is continuing on the diet as she wants to shed another couple of stone , has always had loads of personality but , as her weight has reduced , an even more bubbly girl has emerged . |