Example sentences of "as she [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sure that Doc D would approve of the Caroline Charles electric blue evening suit ( above , right ) : ‘ What a wonderful colour , darling , ’ he said as she walked to the table . |
| 2 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |
| 3 | As she walked to the door , Bodie said , ‘ Got a bit of cling film , polythene bag , something like that ? ’ |
| 4 | Elizabeth collapsed as she walked to the pool with her dad , mum Arlene , 32 , and their two other children — Caroline , 10 , and David , 9 . |
| 5 | He turned and watched blearily as she walked to the table , picked up the empty glass and departed again without once raising her eyes to look at him . |
| 6 | She left the helmet on the bike — how trusting people are out of London — and unzipped her jacket as she walked to the pub door . |
| 7 | As she listened to the faint smack of the sea on the rocks below , she thought again , regretfully , of Angus . |
| 8 | As she listened to the sweet voices of the children coming from the church , and thought of the pain she had experienced in her short life , tears came to her eyes . |
| 9 | She considered all this as she listened to the heated opinions forced upon her outside the shop ( where the throbbing engine of the Findus delivery van obliged everyone to shout ) , on the corner by the church and at two other points on her route back to Greystones . |
| 10 | As she listened to the playback she gazed at the naked corpse . |
| 11 | Telling herself she was an idiot , she pulled her thoughts together and made an effort to concentrate upon what he was saying , and as she listened to the pleasant tones of his deep voice she realised he was on the subject of white-water rafting . |
| 12 | At first she thought of wolves as she listened to the furtive movement in the woods to each side of the river . |
| 13 | But later , as she listened to the English accents of the Customs men , her feeling of anti-climax evaporated a little . |
| 14 | As she listened to the unfamiliar male tone , neither option appealed . |
| 15 | She spread her towel over a cushion so that she could lean her damp , aching head against it , then shivered as she listened to the howl of the wind outside . |
| 16 | Leonora lay hugging a hot-water bottle in the noisy darkness , grateful for the warmth as she listened to the wind howling in counterpoint to the boom of the sea on the rocks below . |
| 17 | The floor tiles were cold but she hardly noticed as she tiptoed to the door and looked into the kitchen . |
| 18 | She pulled on the red wool dressing-gown hastily , glad of its warmth as she tiptoed to the bathroom , doing her best not to wake Penry . |
| 19 | She had not expected to see him so soon , as she returned to the dining rooms . |
| 20 | A quick glance showed that towels were needed , so she went to the linen cupboard and collected two large fluffy ones , but as she returned to the room the sound of Doreen 's plaintive voice caused her to pause . |
| 21 | But as she kept to the inside edge of the footpath to avoid being splashed by the congestion of horse-drawn vehicles her gaze turned to the heart of the city , and all at once her spirits lifted . |
| 22 | Tempy took one look at her mistress as she clung to the door handle , her back bent under the pain , and tugged on the bell-pull . |
| 23 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 24 | So was the ache in her hands as she clung to the wheel . |
| 25 | Jane Fowler appreciates her own failings as she takes to the open road with an advanced driving instructor |
| 26 | I muttered thanks and as she disappeared to the kitchen I stepped up to the sitting room door , knocked rather timidly and entered . |
| 27 | But as she responded to the audience 's affectionate plaudits with both Mimi 's and Violetta 's farewells it was the natural sweetness and dramatic presence of this fine artist that carried the day . |
| 28 | Compassion swept through Gina as she responded to the agony of his humiliation , but still she remained silent , sensing his need to continue his confession without interruption . |
| 29 | ‘ Back to Milan , ’ she snapped as she stalked to the door . |
| 30 | He stepped out of her way and she took a deep breath as she ran to the door and slammed it shut behind her . |