Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 2 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 3 | When she asked her opinion of a radio programme , Mrs O replied that , as she had total hearing loss , she did n't hear the programme . |
| 4 | Since the advent of Felicity , she had gone up to sleep in the attic — an arrangement she preferred , as she had absolute privacy up there , and as luck would have it , there was an electric fire , so that she could use it as a study . |
| 5 | As she had little dress sense , only a vague fear that any hat or dress she chose might be vulgar , so she had no sense of a possible style in which to decorate a house , or even a dining table , for Christmas . |
| 6 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , he 'll perk up , Miss Vine , ’ Mrs Abigail said , mustering further cheerfulness as she emptied roast beef , potatoes , brussels sprouts and gravy on to a cold plate . |
| 8 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 9 | The blind woman quivered as she skryed light years outward through the warp , obeying the disciplines of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica , seeking contact with the mind of some other Astropath serving the fortress-monastery at Vindict V. |
| 10 | Instead , he held Karen 's hand in Manchester County Court as she sued wealthy fashion wholesaler Jonathan Levy . |
| 11 | Kate stopped in her tracks as she applied red lipstick . |
| 12 | He came in and sat next to Juliet , watching her as she checked fluid-balance sheets . |
| 13 | I persuaded our Chairman , Hilary Weedon , to come with me as she speaks fluent German and I am keen that this contact shall continue into younger generations . |
| 14 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 15 | I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before . |
| 16 | In this piece she starts very near , so near she makes us want to vomit at the sight of the caterpillar , and then she slowly moves away , gaining emotional balance as she gains physical distance . |
| 17 | She waited a moment and , as she saw light dawn on the other woman 's face , she started to think that they were getting somewhere . |
| 18 | As Venetia commented : ‘ Laura was clever ; she knew her husband so well , just as she knew public taste in the Sixties . |
| 19 | Just as she uses passive resistance in order to overcome her own passivity , so she uses her empty stomach to overcome her own emptiness . |
| 20 | The hectic flush on Isabel 's face gradually faded as she watched fitzAlan leave . |
| 21 | Elation battled with fear as she watched various expressions chase across his face . |
| 22 | Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . |
| 23 | Ma is trying to apologise for it with her eyes as she sucks khaki splodges from the sleeve of her cardigan . |
| 24 | as she scrubs frail blood-shapes from the windscreen |
| 25 | ‘ She is our miracle baby , ‘ said Dawn as she cuddled three-week-old Anne at home in Norton , North Yorkshire , with husband John . |
| 26 | She smiled at him as she poured boiling water into his cup and stirred his cocoa into a miniature whirlpool with a spoon . |
| 27 | Claudia smiled ruefully as she poured skimmed milk into a pan . |
| 28 | Anna had been suddenly struck as she pushed open Pricewell 's double glass doors , by the ‘ Vacancy ’ notice pasted to the inside of it . |
| 29 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 30 | Christina 's hand shook as she sipped golden rum from the bottle and passed it to Stephen . |