Example sentences of "as she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Gwen complained as she brought two cups of tea over to the table and sat down , ‘ Matt 's the only one who seems able to cope with him . |
| 2 | Davies did n't drop a shot as she carded six birdies and an eagle in her round , after starting the day six strokes behind the French golfer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 6 | In Lille last night , Diana was radiant as she met former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda before a performance of his Liverpool Oratoria . |
| 7 | Towelling herself , she looked out of the window , and paused as she noticed two figures climbing up a path that wound up the side of the mountain . |
| 8 | ‘ Hymne D'Amour was with Major Hern at two and three , but did n't run as she had all sorts of troubles , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Could that have been love , real love ? she asked herself now , as she had many times before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 16 | She loved her baby brother , and she quite liked taking him out in his pram — but not when she had more interesting things to do , as she had this afternoon . |
| 17 | Scarlet accepted this without question , as she accepted all Constance 's character analyses : some dogs , she believed , had the same capacity for swift and accurate judgement . |
| 18 | She accepted the cigarette as she accepted most offerings , and still elated at the sound of her French being understood and responded to by Frenchmen , volunteered the information that she was going to Nîmes , to stay with a family . |
| 19 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | But his bathroom was in the conservatory , which had two doors on to the garden where his wife grew plants , and as she left these doors open all morning his part of the house was apt to be colder than anywhere . |
| 23 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 24 | Although her breathing became a little faster as she imagined this part of the scene , she did not become noticeably distressed in any way ; in fact she told me that she felt really pleased with herself for the way in which she had handled the situation . |
| 25 | Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido . |
| 26 | She spent the next hour jotting down notes as she processed each disk . |
| 27 | Now that was almost cruel , thought Shirley , as she offered second helpings . |
| 28 | Lee shook his head as she offered more tea . |
| 29 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 30 | 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. |