Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she walked briskly along the turning in the cold morning air Nellie spotted Aggie Temple busily whitening her front doorstep and she smiled to herself . |
| 2 | Oh , well , I 've made somebody 's day , ’ she said to herself as she walked briskly through the department , running her eye over the smooth operation of the unit . |
| 3 | Leonora turned her back on the past , bracing herself against the wind as she walked briskly towards the spot where the cliff path began its decent to Seal Haven . |
| 4 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 5 | Somehow the pins in her hair always seemed to escape when she lost her temper and the dark tresses whirled round her shoulders as she walked up and down Oswin 's bedroom . |
| 6 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 7 | She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I need some advice , after all , ’ Hilary said quietly as she walked up to the little group . |
| 9 | She glimpsed him through the glass walls of his studio as she walked past , his watch nailed to a tree so that he could see the time . |
| 10 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
| 11 | Eyes turned as she walked slowly across the room , brushing by this man and that . |
| 12 | She hardly had the energy to acknowledge the odd ‘ Well done , Kelly ’ she heard as she walked slowly towards the car park . |
| 13 | There was an angry throbbing in her head as she walked slowly towards him . |
| 14 | She felt cold , and folded her arms across her chest as she walked slowly back to the house , looking down at the bloodstained front step . |
| 15 | Donna tried to convince herself of that as she walked slowly around the ruins of Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 16 | As she walked slowly upstairs , feeling incredibly tired , Hilary stared round her with new eyes . |
| 17 | A remote , cool air enveloped her that caused more than one man to think twice about approaching her as she walked slowly down the length of the hall . |
| 18 | Later , as she walked slowly downstairs , only a light blue silk dressing-gown over her skin , which was still warm and fragrant from the bath oil , Laura realised that she really did n't want to watch any television . |
| 19 | As she walked slowly in his direction , a tall girl with long , wavy black hair came gracefully out of the door which led into the kitchen . |
| 20 | Parking the Volvo under the cedar tree , she was so sunk in her own angry thoughts that she hardly felt the bleak rain on her face as she walked slowly round to the rear entrance . |
| 21 | As she walked uncertainly towards him , he gave a great bellow , then flung his arms about her , all but suffocating her in his bear-like embrace . |
| 22 | ‘ You lied to me , ’ she said , her voice laced with accusation as she walked through to what appeared to be a workshop . |
| 23 | As she walked away from him he suffered a stroke , and Alizon was later arrested and tried on the charge that she ‘ practised , exercised and used her devilish and wicked arts ’ and that by these she ‘ had him lamed so that his body wasted and consumed away ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ And as she walked away from you , did you utter the words , ‘ Wait until Boxing Day ’ or any words similar to that ? ’ |
| 25 | The smile swept her face and she patted his hand , and then she had spun on her heel and the swing was in her hips as she walked away into the hurrying crowds . |
| 26 | Patrick nodded dumbly as she walked away , working on the buttons on her cuffs . |
| 27 | Even Henrietta took off her ear-phones as Fosdyke asked her how she liked the villa : and , to her surprise , her mother heard her answer , as she walked away , ‘ It 's absolutely brilliant . ’ |
| 28 | Barefoot , she moved with the natural sinuousness of her race , and looking beyond her , Loc saw Jacques Devraux lift his eyes momentarily from his plate to follow the swaying movement of her hips as she walked away from the table . |
| 29 | However , as she walked she felt he must be looking at her back as she walked away . |
| 30 | It was a gesture that touched her , and as she walked away along the fragrant walkway towards the road up to Rosie 's villa she looked at her fingers in the moonlight , and found herself smiling . |