Example sentences of "as she do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter . |
| 2 | Millie , Sapphire 's murderer , clearly misses male sexual attention , fantasising as she does that her absent husband 's return is imminent . |
| 3 | How could this admirable and poetic man have felt , as she did two or three years ago , that he would rather die ? |
| 4 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
| 5 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 6 | However , that morning she had found herself preparing the children 's sandwiches for school — as she did each day — by buttering newspaper instead of the bread . |
| 7 | She was making pot-pourri as she did each year , to fill the bowls in all the rooms . |
| 8 | She lifted her head as she did this , and seemed to look straight at him . |
| 9 | As she did this , she looked at the newspaper and read some of the words on the page … and it was like a terrible dream . |
| 10 | She realised that , as she did this , she was almost groaning with her effort to release the horror locked within her . |
| 11 | As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again . |
| 12 | She took his breath away , as she did most men 's . |
| 13 | Because that glitzy little bit of apparent nonsense is not a novel at all ; but a condensed version of the Real Life Story of Miss Pat Booth , who at 45 still looks as good as she did 20 years ago , and has found fame , fortune and happiness , all wrapped up in a very glossy package indeed . |
| 14 | With her scornful mouth softened by sleep and pale eyelids hiding her furious eyes , she looked as vulnerable as she did desirable . |