Example sentences of "as she [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy . |
| 2 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 3 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 4 | When the female settles on her eggs , the male brings lumps of soil , moistened with his saliva , as she sits in the hole . |
| 5 | However , I can give my hon. Friend the undertaking that as long as she remains in the House such research will not be the Cinderella of the health service . |
| 6 | Just how much larger seemed to occur to Fergie as she lazed in a sun lounger by her French swimming pool . |
| 7 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 8 | ‘ Cheap , ’ he granted her ruthlessly , and smiled as she glanced in the direction of Florian , who was now dancing energetically with the exotically lovely Nicky Kai . |
| 9 | She looked , McLeish observed , as immaculate as she had in the morning , but she was pale and her eyes looked huge . |
| 10 | She wondered again , as she had in the night , why fate had sent this particular man to her . |
| 11 | Emily walked into the sitting room , let the coat fall to the floor and sat down on the couch , crossing her legs as she had in the wine bar , and watching him coolly as he stood there in the doorway . |
| 12 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 13 | With Miss Poraway chattering beside her , she reflected upon all this and recalled , as she had in the night , the course of her virginal marriage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career . |
| 16 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 17 | It was not the horrendous drop that had frightened her as she rode in the Land Rover . |
| 18 | As the thought sprang into her mind she felt her entire body flood with heat even as she shivered in the chilly air . |
| 19 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 20 | Now , as she romps in the garden of their Georgian home in Grayswood , Surrey , this energetic nine-year-old is just as much a part of the Nicholson family as Mike 's wife Diana , 50 , and his two grown sons Tom , 20 and William , 19 . |
| 21 | Her eyes closed , and her head fell back , as she waited in a kind of sensual anguish … |
| 22 | Little chills ran up and down her spine , as she waited in the queue for her lunch . |
| 23 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
| 24 | But as she strolled in the evening darkness down the steps towards the restaurant where she used to meet Rosie for ice-cream , she felt the recent conversations replaying in her mind . |
| 25 | They both then sprinted off and were out of sight before the group of concerned shoppers could reach her as she lay in a faint on the bottom step below the church . |
| 26 | Only two days left , she thought , as she lay in the dark . |
| 27 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 28 | As she lay in the dark , listening to the moan of the wind above the crash of the waves , she slowly came to the realisation that , although she had lost her father , his spirit would give her strength to go on without him . |
| 29 | All she felt as she lay in the dark was that Nicky could not satisfy her . |
| 30 | As she lay in the heat , she felt drowsy and at the same time tinglingly alive . |