Example sentences of "[adv] as she saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Annie laughed aloud as she saw the look on Billy 's face . |
2 | She mopped herself up , then eyed him uncertainly as she saw the set , cold expression on his face . |
3 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
4 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
5 | She also left the book undisturbed but felt , as soon as she saw the title , a further fellow feeling with S. Kettering . |
6 | She just went haywire as soon as she saw the instructor . |
7 | She stopped as soon as she saw the effect of her words . |
8 | But as soon as she saw the tooth , she lost interest . |
9 | ‘ All right , ’ she said wearily , smiling inwardly as she saw the gleam of triumph which lightened his eyes . |
10 | ‘ You do n't own me , Jim , ’ she hissed , her voice faltering slightly as she saw the look of pure rage etched across his features . |
11 | ‘ My friend Lady Jane told me you were a sort of Watson to — ’ She stopped abruptly as she saw the look of outrage on Auguste 's face . |