Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I need some advice , after all , ’ Hilary said quietly as she walked up to the little group . |
| 6 | ‘ You lied to me , ’ she said , her voice laced with accusation as she walked through to what appeared to be a workshop . |
| 7 | She was white-faced but determined and the policemen stood back as she walked over towards the car . |
| 8 | The Land Rover engine rumbled on as she walked round to the driver 's door and waited for him to look at her . |
| 9 | She found , as she walked on , that this place , like any other , had its etiquette . |
| 10 | Her suddenly cold hands clenched tightly as she walked on , past the stile and the beech tree , into the green cool of the wood . |
| 11 | She stored that memory away , together with the memory of the forest in the foreground as she walked on . |
| 12 | The girl , who had started her paper round to earn money for Chrismas presents , was grabbed as she walked along an alleyway after finishing her Saturday morning deliveries . |
| 13 | As she walked along , passing the blocks she still thought of as the ‘ new ’ flats , she caught sight of her grandson Jasper disappearing , in company with three other boys of similar age , into the narrow alley which led to the railway bridge . |
| 14 | An occasional member of the fugitive genteel stuck it grimly out until death ; once Clara was accosted by an old lady , battered and ragged and bent , who said as she walked along , and in accents of refined madness , that once the people that lived there had held their heads up high . |
| 15 | Bertha always wore them on her dress , and they clinked as she walked along . |
| 16 | As she walked along , the three medals on her beautiful white dress clinked against each other . |
| 17 | She had been shocked and upset to see her friend so ill , and suddenly John realised that she was weeping as she walked along with her face averted . |
| 18 | Ianthe remembered as she walked along looking for number 28 that her dressmaker had lived very near here , but somehow , after she had made one or two mourning dresses for her after her mother had died , Ianthe had lost touch with her . |
| 19 | The thought kept her silent as she walked along beside him , forced to quicken her steps to keep up with his long-legged strides . |
| 20 | At 1.30am , a 46-year-old was assaulted as she walked alone Hospital Lane and at 3am he attacked a 22-year-old as she walked along a path at Greystone Road . |
| 21 | Praia do Carvoeiro 's narrow winding streets had not been built with the car in mind , Ashley reflected as she walked along , let alone the beer waggon , the concrete mixer , the tourist coach . |
| 22 | She was still feeling to some degree quite bemused as she walked along to her room . |
| 23 | The eighteen year old was punched as she walked along a path in Campbell Park in Milton Keynes . |
| 24 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 25 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , an' it 's all me own , ’ she replied , smacking her belly as she walked by . |
| 27 | ‘ The Master commends his slave for the quality of the breakfast as well as the weather , ’ said Dr Neil , catching at her hand and pressing it as she walked by . |
| 28 | Annie disregarded the remark and as she walked out of the side door pushing the baby carriage Bessie turned to her employer . |
| 29 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 30 | The abortioned girl stared after Rachaela as she walked out of the gate and back along the street . |