Example sentences of "[adj] as she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lifeboat was scarcely controllable as she took heave head seas overall but once clear of the dangerous rocks James Douglas headed for St Abbs where one group of divers had been caught in the storm . |
| 2 | She tried hard not to appear self-conscious as she greeted the doorman at IMP 's headquarters where she worked . |
| 3 | Not that Luke needed any sartorial props ; he was just naturally sensuously exciting as she had always suspected , and now knew to her cost . |
| 4 | Rain felt distinctly uncharitable as she straightened the bed and tried to pretend they had never been there . |
| 5 | The transmat journey had been as brief , uneventful and nauseating as she had expected . |
| 6 | Her voice was calm as she said to Sisters Monica and Aloysius . |
| 7 | The city spread out below her looked so calm , almost as calm as she had felt such a little time before . |
| 8 | Mrs Quigley was curiously calm as she replied , ‘ They take our money . |
| 9 | Kelly felt quite calm as she entered the large committee room . |
| 10 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 11 | However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . |
| 12 | That much was clear as she struck his hand away . |
| 13 | Who exactly Kristeva means becomes even less clear as she adds : ‘ Let us recall the fascist or social-fascist homosexual community ( and all homosexual communities for whom there is no ‘ other race' ’ ) , and the fact that it is inevitably flanked by a community of viragos who have forgotten the war of the sexes and identity with the paternal Word or its serpent . ’ |
| 14 | He was younger than she had supposed from Jenny 's description — in his early thirties , and as good-looking as she had expected . |
| 15 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 16 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |
| 17 | These were almost as high as she stood . |
| 18 | Rosalba 's voice grew worried and high as she remembered the Easter meal . |
| 19 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 20 | Would she hit him in public as she did at home ? |
| 21 | For Dorothea suddenly saw herself as an old woman badgering a friend into giving up her time and company , and , self-sufficient as she had always been , the picture repelled her . |
| 22 | The penguin felt embarrassed as she gazed into the black , unblinking seal eyes . |
| 23 | He was as embarrassed as she had ever seen him . |
| 24 | She stared at him , then suddenly felt foolish as she realised how uptight she 'd allowed herself to become . |
| 25 | She could feel that she was already soaking wet as she nuzzled up to him like a happy , purring cat . |
| 26 | She followed him over towards one of the big sofas , careful as she sat to leave as much of a gap between them as possible . |
| 27 | Penry 's eyes were inscrutable as she turned away . |
| 28 | His face too was unsmiling as she looked into it and said , ‘ Yes , very likely ; ’ then asked , ‘ Do … do you travel a great deal , sir ? ’ |
| 29 | The Queen looked drawn and unsmiling as she arrived at the games with Prince Philip , Prince Edward and the Queen Mother . |
| 30 | We talked as we went along , but Jane 's conversation became increasingly vague and absent-minded as she concentrated on the work in hand . |