Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Gwen complained as she brought two cups of tea over to the table and sat down , ‘ Matt 's the only one who seems able to cope with him . |
| 2 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 3 | ‘ Hymne D'Amour was with Major Hern at two and three , but did n't run as she had all sorts of troubles , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 5 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 6 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 7 | CITY of Derry 's Roisin Barr was the star performer in the early finals of the Ulster Age Group Championships today as she collected two titles with ease having won the 16–19 year old 100m Butterfly crown last night . |
| 8 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 9 | She grimaced as she took another swig of Coke . |
| 10 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 11 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 13 | As she re-owned these characteristics in herself , she gave up smoking with ease . |
| 14 | She waited a moment and , as she saw light dawn on the other woman 's face , she started to think that they were getting somewhere . |
| 15 | As Venetia commented : ‘ Laura was clever ; she knew her husband so well , just as she knew public taste in the Sixties . |
| 16 | She weeps as she says these words about him : |
| 17 | Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hers was not a demanding character , and so long as she felt some evidence of a man 's care ( which living in Charles ' room would give her ) she would not need more . |
| 20 | She 'd rifled through the contents of her wardrobe twice , groaning disgustedly as she discounted one garment after another . |
| 21 | For a few seconds , as she leaned both hands on the desk to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings , a feeling of panic hit her . |
| 22 | But Garvey had his back to Izzie and it seemed she might escape unseen , as she set one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder to Heaven . |
| 23 | Ma is trying to apologise for it with her eyes as she sucks khaki splodges from the sleeve of her cardigan . |
| 24 | as she scrubs frail blood-shapes from the windscreen |
| 25 | ‘ She is our miracle baby , ‘ said Dawn as she cuddled three-week-old Anne at home in Norton , North Yorkshire , with husband John . |
| 26 | He found himself looking round for Slater as she put one hand on the mantelpiece and slipped her shoe back on , fastening the strap again . |
| 27 | With a despairing groan she rocked forward in the chair , hugging a cushion to her as she relived those moments in his arms . |
| 28 | But her thoughts were brought to an abrupt end , as she descried two figures on their way up the path , and knew she must vacate the viewpoint for Rosie and her Francisco . |
| 29 | She smiled at him as she poured boiling water into his cup and stirred his cocoa into a miniature whirlpool with a spoon . |
| 30 | Claudia smiled ruefully as she poured skimmed milk into a pan . |