Example sentences of "as she [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contented as she was with the house , Virginia was always to cast a glance over her shoulder at her sister , living just five miles away at Charleston . |
| 2 | Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised . |
| 3 | There were still huge crowds of people hanging around the paddock , and Kate had quite a time , burdened as she was with the luggage , to push her way through . |
| 4 | Anxious as she was about the neighbours , she could n't help laughing as she hurried downstairs . |
| 5 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 6 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 7 | As soon as she was on the road she began to run . |
| 8 | As long as she was on the train she was safe . |
| 9 | Juliet smelled them as soon as she was inside the house . |
| 10 | And Anna was getting restive , dazzled as she was by the new prospect . |
| 11 | Then the tense silence was broken by a frightened whimper from Louise , held helpless as she was by the paralysing steel-fingered grip on her neck . |
| 12 | Devastated as she was by the news of Liz and Owen 's terrible accident — and the knowledge that their lives were hanging by a thread — she was also feeling dazed and stunned at her husband 's dramatic reappearance in her life . |
| 13 | Very much shaken as she was by the assault , she nevertheless would not have voluntarily given up her job — but she did not get the choice . |
| 14 | It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis . |
| 15 | She could not leave the house as she was in the middle of making our evening meal . |
| 16 | Charlie came in as she was in the middle of her obstetrical details , and , though now fairly accustomed to the patients , he was slightly taken aback . |
| 17 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 18 | Hannah may have gone without most of the comforts that people take for granted , but at least she had emotional warmth and stability , wrapped as she was in the cocoon of a caring family — her mother , her grandparents , and for a little time her tragic father , all around her . |
| 19 | As soon as she was in the sack , it was a sack then , you wont get them now . |
| 20 | As soon as she was in the sack , she was as quiet as a lamb . |
| 21 | As soon as she was in the bag , |