Example sentences of "[adv prt] as she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing a green and red tartan dress , she kept her head down as she spotted newsmen . |
| 2 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 3 | She had her head down as she said , ‘ That man , the one who frightened me . |
| 4 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 5 | It was Marie on her way home , her cycle slowed down as she took in the interesting spectacle , and Jenna looked up , startled , catching the gleam in the girl 's eyes . |
| 6 | She was tall and big-boned , with strong , thick legs , and big breasts that jounced up and down as she walked . |
| 7 | He could tell she was very annoyed by the way she jogged her foot up and down as she stared at the window . |
| 8 | Isabel Leyland , cut down as she went to collect holiday snaps . |
| 9 | Vicky Whitemore , knowing the problems that 'keepers face in these situations , was delegated with the responsibility and let no-one down as she launched the ball safely into an unguarded part of the net . |
| 10 | She broke down as she surveyed the scene . |
| 11 | Even her mother 's " Pull yourself together " remarks began to drag her down as she recognised that that was something she could not do . |
| 12 | Untempered sun-heat weighed Chesarynth down as she jumped from the copter . |
| 13 | A 34-year-old woman died after being gunned down as she used a phone box . |
| 14 | She felt fitzAlan glance down as she spoke and carefully kept her eyes lowered , not risking even a brief look at the pedlar . |
| 15 | The giggles die down as she adds : ‘ I 'm already depressed about it . |
| 16 | She turned , straightening up , then held out her ticket for inspection , looking the man up and down as she did so . |
| 17 | She made out Barbara Coleman 's white hair , low down as she sat in an armchair . |
| 18 | Doubts came rushing in as she stared at her reflection , wondering what on earth had possessed her to buy it . |
| 19 | Beverley keeps her feelings tightly reined in as she talks . |
| 20 | There was no sign of Nathan as she hurried through the saloon , but his cabin door was ajar and she could n't resist peeping in as she passed . |
| 21 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 22 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 23 | ‘ Good evening , Conrad , ’ Philippa said as she came into the room and bestowed a kiss on his bald patch , saint blessing sinner , and then called out to Larry whom she had seen going in as she walked up the hill with her offerings . |
| 24 | She had walked in as she talked , so he assumed the offer to be turned away was her form of politeness . |
| 25 | Confronted with his certainty so much stronger than her own , disorientation and alienation defusing lack of desire , she gives in as she has done before . |
| 26 | Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply . |
| 27 | The wind roared in as she opened the front door , lifting the filthy curtains and blowing the parish magazine into a corner . |
| 28 | A woman click-clacked past , her high heels dragging along as she carried a pile of heavy papers into a side-office . |
| 29 | It seemed almost too heavy for him to lift but he managed it , resting it against his leg and swinging it along as she held the door open for him . |
| 30 | Sylvia landed with her knees bent , and rolled over as she 'd been taught . |