Example sentences of "[det] as she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She considered all this as she listened to the heated opinions forced upon her outside the shop ( where the throbbing engine of the Findus delivery van obliged everyone to shout ) , on the corner by the church and at two other points on her route back to Greystones . |
| 2 | She debated the likelihood of this as she strolled around the crowded exhibition at Olympia , too preoccupied to take in much of her surroundings . |
| 3 | That the biddable daughter of the house would give in on this as she had on everything else . |
| 4 | They were new to the Colony , but my mother told me as much as she knew about them in advance . |
| 5 | It 's not half as much as she charges in her shop . |
| 6 | If Isabel had hated the situation as much as she claimed to , she could have refused to serve Matilda and sought refuge in a convent . |
| 7 | Lydia felt strongly that the author of the universe probably thought much as she did about sexual matters . |
| 8 | She might have found it confusing that , in spite of having been married to the Father , it was God the Son who told her to treat Him as her wedded husband and kiss Him as much as she liked in bed , but Margery took things like that in her stride . |
| 9 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 10 | In street clothes she looked very flash , not at all as she did in her neat black and white servant 's uniform . |
| 11 | She knew what was right and wrong in fabrics just the same as she did in life , there were no grey areas . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she answered , hiding beneath a pleasant smile of her own as she went to the desk , that her heartbeats had suddenly picked up speed . |
| 13 | As little as she did to him , Iago thought , for now that he was to have half his money back , that he had staked on her ennoblement and his grandchild 's inheritance , he scarcely noticed her . |
| 14 | Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy . |