Example sentences of "as she [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He demurred at once , and she surmised that he was as keen to leave as she was to see the back of him . |
| 2 | As she was filling the kettle , Nevil crept up behind her , and slid his hands round to cup her breasts . |
| 3 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 4 | It dawned on her as she was eating the liver and polenta an hour later that there was something different about Annunziata . |
| 5 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 6 | A movement in the room beyond caused her to fly along the corridor , and as she was passing the kitchen door she blew out the candle and groped her way to her own door . |
| 7 | But as she was passing the Misses Cardings ' shop she heard a loud tapping on the upper part of the door ; then it was pulled open and Miss Belle Carding beckoned Agnes towards her , saying , ‘ Come in a minute , dear . |
| 8 | Who 's helping Kate darling , and if as she was moving the box , she |
| 9 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 10 | They had to meet up with Nellie a great deal as she was supervising the school 's wardrobe . |
| 11 | He came through as she was slamming the food on to the low coffee-table in front of the obediently blazing fire . |
| 12 | She said goodbye to Maggie and then , just as she was leaving the kitchen , she looked directly at Phoebe and added , |
| 13 | The lifeboat was struck by a large sea as she was leaving the harbour and Coxswain Wight had difficulty in manoeuvring clear of the narrow channel , before pausing to take stock of the conditions at sea and pressing on to clear off-lying rocks . |
| 14 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 15 | Lisa Isherwood of Wales sustained a broken leg during a Home International foursomes tie against Scotland , after she slipped and fell on wet ground as she was leaving the 8th green . |
| 16 | Finally Carol Jones , arriving in a great hurry , apologized but could not stay as she was doing the payroll . |
| 17 | Now , like I was saying , duck , ’ she continued to me , ‘ they did n't spot as she was carrying the two until the first come on . |
| 18 | James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair . |
| 19 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 20 | About a hundred Greek Cypriot demonstrators booed and jeered the Queen today as she was handed the keys of Nicosia . |
| 21 | As she was opening the door , she thought of something and turned round . |
| 22 | As she was opening the fridge , she caught sight of Vicky coming up the path . |
| 23 | But as soon as she was arrested the potential consequences really came home to her . |
| 24 | She did n't mind anything as long as she was following the Signora principessa . |
| 25 | As she was pouring the tea it occurred to me that maybe she knew Claudia too . |