Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as she [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 2 | She could just make out the shape of the fork stuck in the ground , the bulbs scattered around as she had left them , and as the moon disappeared behind the clouds she shivered and a feeling of desolation flooded over her . |
| 3 | She had not been called up as she had to care for her widowed mother and do a Civil Service job . |
| 4 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 5 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 6 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |