Example sentences of "[adv] as she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She parked her car and strode through the grand , carved doorway , her heels clicking purposefully as she headed for the reception desk . |
| 2 | Her brows puckered thoughtfully as she ran through the scene in her mind again ; maybe she had over-reacted . |
| 3 | Obviously she 'd been lucky in what the travel agency had found for her , she thought approvingly as she glanced round the attractive room . |
| 4 | She spoke the word aloud as she turned off the water and began rubbing herself furiously with a towel . |
| 5 | We 're almost there , ’ Robyn pleaded aloud as she peered through the rain-soaked windscreen , between the wipers that were belting furiously back and forth as if their lives depended on it . |
| 6 | So long as she looked after the child , she would be entitled to £1 a week . |
| 7 | Shannon patted her shoulder comfortingly as she rose from the chair . |
| 8 | By the time she arrived , still wrestling with this dramatic rearrangement of the stars in the family constellation , she had the beginnings of a bad headache , and it was only as she turned into the drive and saw the lights and heard voices and music spilling from the house that she thought about the party that was still , clearly , very much in progress . |
| 9 | A GIRL was critically ill last night after her mother walked away as she fell into the River Thames . |
| 10 | Their lambent glow danced over her sable-dark hair , touched her face briefly , then slid reluctantly away as she moved into the shadows between each one . |
| 11 | She kept her face turned away as she moved about the room , and looked stony . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Perhaps I have a salvation too , ’ and his voice was so low and his look so piercing that she felt a sudden clutch of fear , just as she had in the studio . |
| 13 | She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float , he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran . |
| 14 | ‘ Library , ’ said Mrs Stych shortly as she staggered through the snow towards her house . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'd have a lot to get used to at first , ’ Rose said absently as she scanned through the letter . |
| 16 | She flushed guiltily as she put on the kettle . |
| 17 | The driver looked on sentimentally as she alighted from the car and made her way down the path . |
| 18 | She glanced downwards , just exactly as she had on the day I 'd come for the room . |
| 19 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 20 | It was there as soon as she passed through the doors of their East Side brownstone . |
| 21 | As soon as she got into the house , Molly ran up the stone stairs to the kitchen tap before she switched on the light . |
| 22 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 23 | She resolved to ring Dana as soon as she got to the showroom . |
| 24 | She saw the note as soon as she got to the door . |
| 25 | It is clearly inappropriate to involve Julie in a prolonged conversation as soon as she arrives on the ward . |
| 26 | She had been eating mechanically until now — the vol-au-vent , some olives , a sliver of cheese — trying unsuccessfully to drown the sensation of Tom 's kiss that she could still taste and feel so strongly on her lips , but , as soon as she bit into the juicy chicken wing with its sizzling red coating of spiced crumbs , her mouth began to burn with a very different feeling . |
| 27 | " Oh , but you 've been in bed ! " she exclaimed as soon as she went round the angle . |
| 28 | Ana knew it was Maggie as soon as she walked into the room . |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as she walked through the door all the memories came flooding back and she burst into tears , ’ Rosemary said . |
| 30 | As soon as she arrived at the office , she went to see Mr Tranter , the editor . |