Example sentences of "as she [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole corridor had a black patina that stuck to the soles of her shoes as she walked on it , cigarettes smeared in spilt liquor with the occasional squashed sandwich mashed in . |
| 2 | Then she brought both hands back to her lips and spread her arms expansively , before bringing them back together and pushing her fists forward at waist-height as she rocked on her haunches ; then the banana sign , clearer and more distinct this time , both hands finally coming together with the fingers bent , a rough but distinct letter B. |
| 3 | By the time they had done the shopping and got back and Tessa had cooked the lunch ( as she insisted on doing in her eagerness to keep house for him ) it would almost certainly be something like three o'clock . |
| 4 | All of which became hidden as she shrugged on an oversized khaki shirt , the sleeves hitched up to her elbows . |
| 5 | Piggott 's daughter Tracy , 27 , was in tears as she commentated on the race for television . |
| 6 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 7 | That the biddable daughter of the house would give in on this as she had on everything else . |
| 8 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 9 | She glanced downwards , just exactly as she had on the day I 'd come for the room . |
| 10 | He shot her an enigmatic glance as she stepped on board the powerful speed-launch , scene of the dramatic rescue that first night . |
| 11 | It is clearly inappropriate to involve Julie in a prolonged conversation as soon as she arrives on the ward . |
| 12 | Nothing and no one was safe , least of all Mrs Browning , and as she reflected on this a sense of futility overwhelmed her . |
| 13 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 14 | She was out of the car at once , the door slammed , her aggressive , slender height bristling with rage as she advanced on the Porsche driver . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1920s and 1930s her moderate and conciliatory personality worked to mediate between the revolutionary and the gradualist wings of the Women 's International League ( founded under Jane Addams at The Hague in 1915 ) as she served on its international executive . |
| 16 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
| 17 | Jill Stewart eyed her with a certain degree of amusement as she knocked on one of the doors . |
| 18 | He had already dreamt about her often , but usually she was fully dressed and smiling enigmatically as she waited on him , bringing him food and wine . |
| 19 | Her lips parted — trembling — as she hovered on the brink of speech . |
| 20 | Her pregnancy thankfully gave her a little relief from the enormous output normally expected of her , and her stay with the Franklins was a welcome respite from the boredom and loneliness of being on her own , as she wrote on 9 January : |
| 21 | ‘ Sounds very complicated , ’ remarked Juliet , as she wrote on the chart . |
| 22 | Clare yelled in pain as she fell on scratchy , frosted bracken . |
| 23 | The woman 's face was covered with shreds of baby as she fell on the road . |
| 24 | ‘ Without them it would n't have been possible , ’ swooned the ebony-tressed editrice as she eased on her crushed-velvet vermilion robes . |
| 25 | She was thinking , as she went on her errand , less of the Rose-Dora-Dieter triangle than of Iris and her hapless devotion to Philippe Bonard . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you sure that 's meant for me ? ’ he asked , as she went on tiptoe to measure her knitting against his back . |
| 27 | Well , you 'll also have noticed I am sure that as she went on touches of uneasiness began to appear . |
| 28 | Hopefully as well as affectionately , he did so ; undressing her as she lay on the too-large hotel bed and stroking her shoulders and upper arms . |
| 29 | This was better , she thought as she lay on her cot in the farmhouse . |
| 30 | And Riven sat beside Madra as she lay on most of the bedding they had left , with strips of cloak bound about the wounds which bit into her , and Ratagan on her other side with his face twisted in concern . |