Example sentences of "[vb pp] as she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His gentleness was fake , she knew that now , his face distorted as she looked at him . |
| 2 | Maria 's heart clenched as she slanted a look at his grim countenance . |
| 3 | Maria 's anger abated as she realised how much the answer meant to him . |
| 4 | Katherine 's voice cracked as she called her daughter 's name , and she repeated herself , more softly this time . |
| 5 | Instead of subsiding now that he was no longer touching her , the disturbance he had caused deepened as she looked at him and understood that the warning was a personal one , merely dressed up as professional advice . |
| 6 | Lindsey frowned , certain that Jill had said there were no more patients , and the frown deepened as she looked up and saw Niall Grant . |
| 7 | Chantal 's mouth dropped as she opened her apartment door and registered the sodden , bedraggled figure on the landing . |
| 8 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 9 | She sat down and began to pour out the tea and , her voice still quiet , she went on , ‘ I do n't suppose it 's really so bad for you , instructing or teaching , whatever it is you do , but in the Naafi , amidst the clatter — ’ she now looked at him and her words were spaced as she went on , ‘ and the chaff and the ribbing ; well , I sometimes think I have died and gone to hell , because that 's what I think hell must be like ; constant joking , especially when you hear the same thing repeated over and over again . ’ |
| 10 | She listened , her little finger cocked as she held her coffee cup poised above its saucer . |
| 11 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 12 | Her voice trembled and her whole body stiffened as she stared at Robert incredulously . |
| 13 | Her body was racked by sobs , muffled as she pressed her head against his chest . |
| 14 | Dorothy opened the oven to see how the dinner was coming along , and her voice was muffled as she tried to avoid the steam from the casserole she was peeking at . |
| 15 | The Palmer & Pearson file she had brought up with her was forgotten as she swung round and headed for the door . |
| 16 | The threat of the soldiers was momentarily forgotten as she struggled to keep her footing and prevent the animal from bolting . |
| 17 | All tiredness was forgotten as she gazed at her daughter . |
| 18 | Marian leaned over the parapet ; the rain , which still streamed down , was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing of the kind , ’ she said , the coffee forgotten as she turned to face her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Muriel Harvey was attacked as she walked home from midnight mass at |
| 22 | Nine days ago , a 26 year old woman was also attacked as she walked along New Road . |
| 23 | The girl was attacked as she walked to school along a footpath on the Two Mile Ash estate , last Thursday . |
| 24 | The woman was attacked as she left the Yarm Road branch of Barclay 's Bank at 11am , yesterday . |
| 25 | The 20 year old student was attacked as she used the women 's toilets near the Martyr 's Memorial in the centre of Oxford . |
| 26 | Doreen 's lip curled as she said loftily . |
| 27 | She looked a little discomposed as she spoke , as though guilty about this laissez-faire attitude , but she went on , ‘ If her family are worried , they 'll do something . ’ |
| 28 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 29 | If she was feeling totally devastated as she re-entered the hotel she had left last Sunday , though , then only she was going to know it . |
| 30 | Eyes turned as she walked slowly across the room , brushing by this man and that . |