Example sentences of "as she [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as she gets what she wants , she stops signing . ’ |
| 2 | I told you , did n't I say , as soon as she gets it cut she 'll be growing it out . |
| 3 | He wakes her gently , and as she opens her eyes , he says to her . |
| 4 | As we said the ‘ Hail Mary ’ , she joined her hands and prayed in her simple way with her Dad as she does her night prayers . |
| 5 | Some of them happened , she said , when ‘ her eyes were ever together-ward as if she would have slept ’ , some she saw ‘ with her ghostly eye ’ ; most of her experiences with the Holy Family she describes just as she does her other , more ordinary experiences . |
| 6 | Paintbrush in hand , Kylie recalls the beautiful things in life as she creates her own , very individual , landscapes , portraits and still lifes . |
| 7 | As she elbows her way through the massed youngsters , they press around her , trying to snatch a drink of milk . |
| 8 | For example , how does the quality of her environment , as she perceives it , now come up to her initial expectations ? |
| 9 | The basic structure and feel for the balances of nature ’ , as she describes it , inform her abstract work , itself often initially inspired by her landscape watercolours . |
| 10 | The moral collapse of the younger generation , as she describes it , is ‘ the logical outcome of the theory and practice of the past couple of decades ’ . |
| 11 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 12 | Sharon 's face lights up as she hears his admission of love . |
| 13 | But since she is rather ostentatiously concealing it with her arm as she talks I imagine that it is in fact not homework at all , but a contribution to her mother 's Festschrift . |
| 14 | I shall take Zoe back to Lourdes as soon as she takes her first step as I know she will . |
| 15 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 16 | Nein says Herta as she takes my hand and places it , for an angry moment , between her thighs . |
| 17 | Her hands shake as she takes it . |
| 18 | ‘ You know Howard , do n't you ? ’ she says , as she levers him into conversations at parties . |
| 19 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 20 | There are scènes d'action in Romeo and Juliet : for example , when Lord and Lady Capulet bring Paris to confront Juliet in her bedroom which merges into apas d'action as she repulses his advances when he tries to woo her ; there is the variation describing the activities of Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio before they enter the ballroom . |
| 21 | ‘ Mh-mm , ’ she 'll say , as she unwraps my hair lotion . |
| 22 | ‘ But I was in control , ’ she says , over the noise of the streaming water as she soaps my shoulders and back . |
| 23 | It is the logic that transgresses the unitary 1 of ‘ Dieu , la loi , la définition ’ ( 90 ) ; it is the logic of ambivalence and of the ‘ polyphonic ’ novel , for fiction , as she defines it , is ‘ cette réunion non-synthétique entre ‘ est ’ et ‘ n'est pas ’ ' ( 1974:353 ) . |
| 24 | Even as she offers her diagnosis , she very touchingly envelops it in a renewed insistence on how he was still , in 1935 , ‘ passionate and austere , : |
| 25 | Such a moment arises when the short boy endeavours to catch the tall girl round the waist as she extends her leg to turn à la seconde but grabs her knee instead and has to creep round underneath . |
| 26 | I am very fond of her and I respect her as she respects me . ’ |
| 27 | 1992 The extent of the rift between Charles and Diana is made plain to the world on their tour of India as she turns her face away and his attempted kiss turns into nothing but a grimace . |
| 28 | Once in position , the male begins to nudge her and as she lays her adhesive eggs , he fertilizes them . |
| 29 | The embers die as she denies their warmth . |
| 30 | Steve Sutcliffe , of Chester city council 's policy unit , said : ‘ She will become the oldest female Freeman and as she feels she can not attend a service later this month , we have staged this special ceremony for her . ’ |