Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] as [pron] walked " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my child 's brain he crashed at my feet as I walked through a strange city . |
| 2 | Somehow the pins in her hair always seemed to escape when she lost her temper and the dark tresses whirled round her shoulders as she walked up and down Oswin 's bedroom . |
| 3 | A couple of men waved white handkerchief frantically above their heads as they walked gingerly to where other forms were lying , deadly still . |
| 4 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 5 | The three women were silent as Alice went down the front steps , her white lace dress foaming around her legs as she walked . |
| 6 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 7 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 8 | The whole corridor had a black patina that stuck to the soles of her shoes as she walked on it , cigarettes smeared in spilt liquor with the occasional squashed sandwich mashed in . |
| 9 | The place was obviously an informal car park , the grass worn away and dust stirring beneath her feet as she walked . |
| 10 | looked down at her feet as she walked , finally admitted , a little ashamedly , that it was all true ; " I was wild , " she agreed in her slow , low voice , nodding , Graham felt a sort of ache then , as he had when Slater first told him ; he wanted to have known her then , to have been a part of her life during that time . |
| 11 | The smile swept her face and she patted his hand , and then she had spun on her heel and the swing was in her hips as she walked away into the hurrying crowds . |
| 12 | Barefoot , she moved with the natural sinuousness of her race , and looking beyond her , Loc saw Jacques Devraux lift his eyes momentarily from his plate to follow the swaying movement of her hips as she walked away from the table . |
| 13 | Dinah closed her eyes for an instant , letting the long lashes lie on her cheeks as she walked . |
| 14 | Little terns fished out at sea ; I could hear their squabblings as I walked across the sand hills . |
| 15 | Charlotte followed obediently at his heels as they walked through a district of narrow , dirty streets . |
| 16 | Tiny clouds swirled about his legs as he walked . |
| 17 | I , Jessel , saw the heaviness in his legs as he walked up the lane . |
| 18 | He was weak and found it difficult to pick up his feet as he walked . |
| 19 | The ground was already thick with frost which crunched beneath his feet as he walked . |
| 20 | He said nothing more for a while , leaving Ellie to stand waiting his instructions as he walked slowly round the room , as if to make sure nothing else had been violated . |
| 21 | The wet ground pulled at our feet as we walked . |
| 22 | People clung to our arms as we walked out and an Officer emptied Pernod over Gibeau 's tunic , telling him that it was Christmas and that we had a right to enjoy ourselves . |