Example sentences of "[vb pp] as she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His gentleness was fake , she knew that now , his face distorted as she looked at him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her voice trembled and her whole body stiffened as she stared at Robert incredulously . |
| 4 | All tiredness was forgotten as she gazed at her daughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nine days ago , a 26 year old woman was also attacked as she walked along New Road . |
| 7 | The girl was attacked as she walked to school along a footpath on the Two Mile Ash estate , last Thursday . |
| 8 | The floor tiles were cold but she hardly noticed as she tiptoed to the door and looked into the kitchen . |
| 9 | A widow 's threatened as she lay in bed . |
| 10 | A widow who 's only just been allowed home from hospital after suffering a stroke has been robbed as she lay in bed . |
| 11 | He must have jogged to the shops and back , she deduced , keeping her brain detached as she stared at him . |
| 12 | The victim , who 's in her twenties , was grabbed as she walked through woodland a few hundred yards from the crowds in Park . |
| 13 | The woman was grabbed as she walked through woodland in Park . |
| 14 | However , her feet dragged as she went towards the office , where she found Silas listening to the answering machine while Doreen recorded the messages . |
| 15 | It is a rarity for a horse of Lyric Fantasy 's ability to be offered for public sale , and the Park Paddocks ' arena at Newmarket was packed as she came into the ring . |
| 16 | And , with a gasp , she freed herself , stumbling backwards , her head bent as she struggled against the hunger and disappointment that clamoured inside her . |
| 17 | There was a curtness to her tone , but Debbie did n't seem at all perturbed as she grinned at them both . |
| 18 | He poured it for her and watched with one eyebrow raised as she gulped at it . |
| 19 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 20 | Now her head dipped as she pried at the fissure of a half-split nail . |
| 21 | Evelyn watched her , terrified as she writhed in the dust , twisting the strands together . |
| 22 | The excitement persisted as she worked beside Silas , making her acutely aware of his masculinity and of the vitality that seemed to ooze from every pore of his body . |
| 23 | The Baronne had retreated behind her mask again , but her lips tightened as she glanced at the label . |
| 24 | ’ Her green eyes widened as she thought of a plan . |
| 25 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 26 | Her attempt at sarcasm was wasted as she took in his grim expression . |
| 27 | Her momentary sulkiness fled as she relaxed into his embrace , an embrace too pervasive to be Maggie 's . |
| 28 | A PREGNANT woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in daylight had been abducted as she telephoned for help on the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday , writes Heather Mills . |
| 29 | Laura 's cheeks flushed as she hunted in her handbag for her bunch of keys . |
| 30 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |