Example sentences of "as she [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police are hunting a man who snatched a woman 's handbag as she walked to a bank in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 2 | The last great Neo-Platonic philosopher , a woman , Hypatia , was stoned to death as she returned from a lecture at the library — again by ‘ Christians ’ — in A.D. 415 . |
| 3 | Just how much larger seemed to occur to Fergie as she lazed in a sun lounger by her French swimming pool . |
| 4 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 5 | Her hand shook slightly as she reached for a swab , and the child began to whimper as she gently began trying to clear the affected area in order to get a better look . |
| 6 | Once or twice , Jack had casually goosed her as she reached for a file . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe , ’ he said , sitting on her side of the bed as she reached for a woman 's magazine , ‘ maybe I 'm gay ! ’ |
| 8 | Folly sat up ; then clutched the sheet to her as she realised with a shock that she was naked . |
| 9 | But then the near triumphant feeling of satisfaction quickly changed to one of horror , as she realised with a cry that the co-ordination of her limbs was n't what it should be , and she found herself falling heavily and clumsily into the basin of chill water below . |
| 10 | Myra was right , Claudia thought as she attended to a customer . |
| 11 | A pregnant woman lost her baby after she fainted as she waited for a bus and fell into the path of a lorry driven by her uncle . |
| 12 | He was finally restrained by police after he grabbed Mrs Rodham as she waited for a bus . |
| 13 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 14 | Her eyes closed , and her head fell back , as she waited in a kind of sensual anguish … |
| 15 | She knew her hands were trembling as she fiddled with a pen on the desk . |
| 16 | The boy could feel Izzie 's body brush past him as she crawled into a corner . |
| 17 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |
| 18 | She choked and spat out some seawater and then swallowed a lungful as she went into a spasm again . |
| 19 | Mitch knelt beside her as she lay for a moment on the ground . |
| 20 | They both then sprinted off and were out of sight before the group of concerned shoppers could reach her as she lay in a faint on the bottom step below the church . |
| 21 | We were invited to Stuart Johnston 's retirement party in the English Department ( Stuart met us off the ship when we first arrived in NZ , in 1969 ) ; but Val did n't make the party as she tripped in a gutter and pulled her ankle ( she got free treatment for it from the doctor , thanks to NZ 's Accident Compensation scheme ! ) . |
| 22 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 23 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 24 | Then she was crying aloud as she felt her body quickening to climax , and the tears wet on her own cheeks as she soared to a summit she had never hoped to experience , as beautiful and spectacular and as free as the fireworks of Tivoli and , like them , over too soon , leaving her both satiated yet hungry to renew the experience . |
| 25 | As she toyed with a pottery unicorn made by Leonora during her stay in Bart 's , Lady Romsey added : ‘ When we knew she was n't going to survive we said , ‘ We will get through this and we will still thank Bart 's . |
| 26 | In keeping with the rest of the terrain , the land formed hills and valleys , and as she gazed at a hillside Lucy thought that never before had she seen so many different shades of green . |
| 27 | ’ Her green eyes widened as she thought of a plan . |
| 28 | THE husband of a woman murdered as she sunbathed on a South African beach spoke of his fears last night that her killer may never be brought to justice . |
| 29 | ‘ She liked to think , as she lay in her corner , that she was shut in a cage with some powerful wild animal , a tiger or a lion or a bear , who had devoured his keeper and would spring upon anyone else who opened his door , but with whom she was ‘ quite safe and conceited ’ , as she said with a chuckle . ’ |
| 30 | The nun looked away from Millie now and towards the partition as she said in a voice little above a mutter , ‘ He bids us come , and if at first we do n't obey Him , His voice is insistent . |