Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 At 1.30am , a 46-year-old was assaulted as she walked alone Hospital Lane and at 3am he attacked a 22-year-old as she walked along a path at Greystone Road .
2 The eighteen year old was punched as she walked along a path in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes .
3 She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes .
4 She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes .
5 The girl , who had started her paper round to earn money for Chrismas presents , was grabbed as she walked along an alleyway after finishing her Saturday morning deliveries .
6 But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg .
7 ‘ Miss Russell ? ’ she queried as she stretched out a hand to the phone .
8 As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house .
9 Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter .
10 A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night .
11 She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster .
12 The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse .
13 But even as she flung out a hand to save herself she was whisked off her feet and pulled into the secure haven of fitzAlan 's arms .
14 For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman .
15 As she swilled out a whisky , she caught the burning , envious eyes of her captive .
16 ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm .
17 Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log .
18 Her eyes widened as she took on an air of great sadness .
19 Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau .
20 He stooped to replenish the stove then came to look at what she was doing as she finished off a row .
21 They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface .
22 But she almost turned and fled as she came round a corner and found herself face to face with Guido .
23 The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das .
24 Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide .
25 As she stood up an empty wine bottle clattered off the bench and rolled down the pavement .
26 One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in .
27 As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job .
28 Theresa Stevens , 21 , was beaten , repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself .
29 But Miss Angus slapped her wrist sharply with a teaspoon , as she picked up a paperback with her other hand and examined it closely .
30 ‘ I 'll find the Doctor , ’ Cheryl said dully , as she picked up a torch .
  Next page