Example sentences of "[noun sg] as she [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gas burned with a flickering blue light as she switched on the fire in the sitting-room , and for a while she held out her hands to the flame . |
| 2 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 3 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 4 | Sara shivered a little in her thin American suit as she walked down the gangway and got into the bus which was to take her and the other passengers to the arrival building . |
| 5 | A workmanlike silence fell , broken only by the snip of scissors on stems , and the steady scratching of Folly 's pencil as she scribbled out the orders for next day . |
| 6 | Patrick smiled at the woman as she brought in the tea . |
| 7 | Miss Harker was a little out of breath as she rolled up the petition . |
| 8 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 9 | ‘ Not everyone , ’ said Lydia after a moment 's consideration as she worked out the least impolite way of putting what she wished to say . |
| 10 | ’ Gertrude lowered her voice as she yielded up the spiciest morsel of her story . |
| 11 | But she paid them no heed as she held out the lid for Charlotte to see . |
| 12 | She preserved a dignified silence as she gathered up the trailing dressing-gown in one hand and kept the other on the rail attached to the wall on one side of the staircase . |
| 13 | Her manner and her uniform will secure the patient 's trust as she carries out the necessary investigations , while her understanding of the aims of the study will ensure that she can offer the research team more than columns of figures . |
| 14 | No — that would be too much to expect , she decided with a pang of misery that made her blink as she turned over the food . |
| 15 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 16 | Rae imagined the fear in her sunless face as she scrambled up the rough bark . |
| 17 | There was a lump in her throat as she put down the phone . |