Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Gwen complained as she brought two cups of tea over to the table and sat down , ‘ Matt 's the only one who seems able to cope with him . |
| 2 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 3 | ‘ Who knows , Diana may well want to move on to bigger and faster racing cars as she gets better and more confident . ’ |
| 4 | I mean there is that biography as soon as she gets disguised . |
| 5 | A woman does , as she gets older , achieve a certain status in the joint family , particularly if she has had sons . |
| 6 | There may be more work as she gets older , she says : ‘ I 'd like to do the kind of roles Anjelica Huston can do . |
| 7 | Out on the pathway leading to the gate he took her arm , saying , ‘ She gets dafter as she gets older , ’ but there was such warmth in his tone that his words could have been translated as , ‘ Is n't she marvellous ! ’ |
| 8 | She might grow out of them as she gets older . |
| 9 | Davies did n't drop a shot as she carded six birdies and an eagle in her round , after starting the day six strokes behind the French golfer . |
| 10 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 11 | She had all but crawled downstairs to answer the imperative summons , yawning as she tugged open the door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Millie , Sapphire 's murderer , clearly misses male sexual attention , fantasising as she does that her absent husband 's return is imminent . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're right , ’ he observed , as she flopped breathless on the deck , ‘ you really are incredibly unfit . ’ |
| 15 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 16 | Breeze talked away for all she was worth as she cut bread-and-butter in the draughty old kitchen , but she knew that her sister was n't really listening . |
| 17 | ‘ Know what ? ’ asked Dieter as she seemed unable to go on . |
| 18 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 19 | It was to get in those lectures , of course , ’ she added , flushing a little as she recalled some of the pointed remarks the headmistress had made to her , about lack of initiative and weakness of will . |
| 20 | Katherine 's lips moved in a grim smile as she recalled some of the details — it had been quite a scandal . |
| 21 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 22 | In Lille last night , Diana was radiant as she met former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda before a performance of his Liverpool Oratoria . |
| 23 | She sat by her only daughter and watched as she grew thinner and breathed less and less easily until the day came when she could not breathe any more . |
| 24 | There was an impression that my milkmaid friend was what is called well-connected , and I am glad to say that as she grew old she was , as it were , gathered in , to be near her relatives . |
| 25 | Its familiarity would be her comfort as she grew old without Juan . |
| 26 | She had a definite dislike for Robert 's wife , the former dancer , and refused to see her as she grew older . |
| 27 | As she grew older , her prophetic visions became known and feared throughout England . |
| 28 | As she grew older the problem took on mammoth proportions . |
| 29 | Elizabeth Titford , the mother , must have needed a bit of Christian faith herself as she grew older and struggled to live through the hard times which were a mark of the 1820s with its long and painful inflation . |
| 30 | She herself had never been a woman to dote on babies and had found her own daughter much more interesting as she grew older . |