Example sentences of "as they [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made a frantic leap to shake them off , as they lifted her back and front nearside feet over the rope and positioned her with her back to the revving Mercedes again . |
| 2 | There were lights at regular intervals in the ceiling , with patches of shadow in between , and stripes of light and dark followed each other overhead as they trundled her along . |
| 3 | She saw them just as they saw her , and waved to them — with disastrous results . |
| 4 | The sound of the crash turned every head , and they smiled as they saw her hustled away towards his office . |
| 5 | Lily Goodenough interrupted two intruders as they ransacked her home at Rose Hill in Oxford . |
| 6 | The police had apologized for the incident as if they were personally to blame , their apologies becoming even more profuse as they told her that , without a number plate ( which she had been unable to remember ) to trace , there was little chance of them finding the car , let alone the driver . |
| 7 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 8 | How did she look as they took her downstairs ? ’ |
| 9 | The fits stopped her from being able to drive and made even daily chores like shopping difficult as they made her develop amnesia . |
| 10 | Then , as they dragged her away , she clung to the handbasin . |
| 11 | As they dragged her away from the flaming Audi , she had turned and seen Adam lying on the road , shielding himself . |
| 12 | As they bundled her down the stairs she must have fainted , because the next thing she could recollect was being wheeled along an endless corridor that smelled of disinfectant . |
| 13 | Now , the Israelites had been taught to welcome strangers and to look after them and Ruth 's fears must have been allayed as they receive her , there 's no cross examination , there 's no inquisition , she does n't go through any third degree , she is received back at face value . |
| 14 | His eyes glinted gold as they devoured her . |
| 15 | We see that Cordelia 's judgement of them was correct : As they taunt her for her disobedience she replies , ‘ Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides ; /Who covers faults , at last with shame derides ’ ( 280f . ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 17 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 18 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 19 | Lizzie and Henry again looked at each other as they followed her into the room , and sat on the couch . |
| 20 | He shook his head , his eyes dark as glass as they studied her . |
| 21 | The light , mocking note in his voice was acutely disturbing , as was the gleam in those deeply hooded granite-grey eyes as they studied her so intently . |
| 22 | Dinah paid no heed ; as long as they kept her on , she could put up with whatever came . |
| 23 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 24 | As they answer she leans back , and her nightdress brushes against my bare chest and tickles my hair . |
| 25 | The blue beams from the front , as they passed her , called out excitedly ‘ Wheee … here already ! ’ |
| 26 | She smiled as they passed her by , and they saw revealed what Timothy Gedge had claimed : her beauty was marred by discoloured teeth . |
| 27 | If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor . |
| 28 | As soon as they arrived she saw , about half a mile away , a tall figure in a cloak , with a wide-brimmed black hat . |
| 29 | Each of their slovenly scrawls was greeted with gasps of admiration from the kindly tutor , whose dress and hair grew paler by the minute as they showered her with dust . |
| 30 | As they wheel her out of the theatre , she comes to and murmurs groggily , ‘ Thank you so much for all your help . ’ |