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

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1 Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy .
2 Marie Claire was nothing like a nun and made a noise as she walked in her high-heeled shoes .
3 As soon as she walked in Camille remembered the smell of dog .
4 In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently .
5 In her portrait of Medea — or Medee as she becomes in this staging of the original French version — this is what she uses consistently .
6 But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent .
7 As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her .
8 ‘ I understood her perfectly , ’ Louise said as she searched in her bag for her lighter .
9 She looked at him levelly , wondering if he could perhaps be mad , after all , as she searched in her mind for evidence of her ‘ disgusting behaviour ’ .
10 Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 .
11 When the female settles on her eggs , the male brings lumps of soil , moistened with his saliva , as she sits in the hole .
12 As I pass , I see the girl with glasses as she sits in her bed ; her spectacled eyes flashing bulbs on the screen .
13 However , I can give my hon. Friend the undertaking that as long as she remains in the House such research will not be the Cinderella of the health service .
14 Very quickly this initial impression vanished as she recognised in him a dazzling personality , a person who had only to enter a room and the pace of things altered .
15 As she screamed in pain they stole a necklace she was wearing .
16 Just how much larger seemed to occur to Fergie as she lazed in a sun lounger by her French swimming pool .
17 ’ Mary uttered as she stirred in her sleep , scraping the back of her elder brother 's leg with an uncut toenail .
18 She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran .
19 ‘ Cheap , ’ he granted her ruthlessly , and smiled as she glanced in the direction of Florian , who was now dancing energetically with the exotically lovely Nicky Kai .
20 As she describes in her book , she was an adolescent girl coming to grips with growing up and kicking against conventions ‘ but only in this rather middle-class way .
21 She looked , McLeish observed , as immaculate as she had in the morning , but she was pale and her eyes looked huge .
22 She wondered again , as she had in the night , why fate had sent this particular man to her .
23 Emily walked into the sitting room , let the coat fall to the floor and sat down on the couch , crossing her legs as she had in the wine bar , and watching him coolly as he stood there in the doorway .
24 Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs .
25 With Miss Poraway chattering beside her , she reflected upon all this and recalled , as she had in the night , the course of her virginal marriage .
26 He said , ‘ Perhaps I have a salvation too , ’ and his voice was so low and his look so piercing that she felt a sudden clutch of fear , just as she had in the studio .
27 Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career .
28 She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days .
29 In January 1924 , when the house was nearing completion , she went twice in four days , first with her son ‘ Georgie ’ , the Duke of Kent , when they spent one and a half hours ‘ going over the beautiful miniature things ’ , as she records in her diary , and later with a friend when she ‘ arranged some of the rooms ’ .
30 Laura 's cheeks flushed as she hunted in her handbag for her bunch of keys .
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