Example sentences of "as she [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , though , does arouse pity for Blanche as she does want to escape , by marrying Mitch . |
| 2 | The reader may be able to even feel concerned for her as she does seem to have a conscience . |
| 3 | The swab of the rag , the tickle of the brush , the buzz of the fire ( I 'm so sentimental about that electric bar already ) , the serendipity of Radio 3 , and her quarter-profile as she sits turned away from me , hair hooked back behind one lobeless ear . |
| 4 | whether the girl standing on the opposite side of the crossroads , with her face hidden by the long dark hair falling over her shoulders as she waits to cross the road , head turned to watch the oncoming traffic , will look straight ahead so that he can see her face : and if so , whether it will fulfil his hopes ; and whether the fulfilment of his hopes would in itself be a kind of disappointment . |
| 5 | Land is fairly cheap and , as she decides to go to the Development Area in Cornwall , the government grants will help to pay for the factory building and its machinery . |
| 6 | This collection is the result of spending 10 months experimenting with different papers , allowing the image to be worked out ‘ in an organic way ’ as she describes defying the confines of the papers ’ rectangle by rearing and adding and building up to works with dimensions reaching over four foot . |
| 7 | The piece seems rooted in the symbolic , cabalistic use of language as she seeks to reclaim heritage and identity from fragments of text . |
| 8 | It is questionable that texts can always be read as favourably as she seeks to do . |
| 9 | Erm , she keeps going cruising for babes , as she keeps saying . |
| 10 | I console her , as she struggles to disentangle her gearstick from her Cinderella gown . |
| 11 | Remember the not uncommon example of the person who gets progressively tense and more frantic as she struggles to relax bits of her body to order . |
| 12 | She , the simple mender and dealer in second-hand clothes , happens to return as she happens to keep getting pregnant — and what fuller and neater manifestation of chance than that , than conceiving and being conceived ? |
| 13 | The Marchioness of Blandford has been moved to a private hospital as she continues to make a good recovery from a riding accident . |
| 14 | Light dawns on the small Year Niner 's face as she hastens to explain that the stain on the front of her school blouse is jam that has squirted out of her break-time doughnut , and not blood at all . |
| 15 | Indeed , the Scottish nuclear industry would be left with a considerably greater radioactive waste management task if all cross-border movement of spent nuclear waste were halted , as she appears to want . |
| 16 | A guest , Mr Prentice , is attending an important luncheon being held at the hotel ; a very hysterical lady who says she is Mrs Prentice comes to the reception desk and demands that Mr Prentice be found as she wishes to speak to him . |
| 17 | YOUNGER royals from Prince Charles down have been warned by the Queen to behave as she strives to salvage her family 's battered public image . |
| 18 | When she cries in her sleep , try not to fuss her , and do n't worry about her eating trouble — as soon as she begins to realise that you are a family unit her tum will never let her starve ! |
| 19 | Catch her , and check her , as she begins to hurl defiance at you ; do n't wait for her to complete her tirade . |
| 20 | It is only now , in middle age , that joy is beginning to develop in her heart , as she begins to realize that God has truly given her the gift of life . |
| 21 | Most of them hit the floor , but he manages to shoot Maud Havernick four times as she tries to flee , and fells Michèle Richard with another shot before she reaches the door . |
| 22 | This sort of awareness of the children 's requirements is a key role for the teacher in most activities as she tries to anticipate and provide for the next stage in each child 's development . |
| 23 | All In One Piece finds Mrs Large in another situation which is not entirely unfamiliar as she tries to get ready to go to Mr Large 's office dinner and dance . |
| 24 | And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre : |
| 25 | The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself . |
| 26 | PRINCESS Anne began married life the second time around as she means to go on — by giving the orders . |
| 27 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 28 | He watches her in the yard with her cloth and bucket , as she kneels to tackle the clean plates . |
| 29 | The quality in the British corner included Briggs , showing the speed which is one of her greatest assets , as she attempts to regain the world bantamweight title lost two years ago . |
| 30 | Polly James , as the matchmaker Frosine , is energetic and endlessly scheming as she attempts to marry off the daughter and her lover Valère , who is masquerading as the Miser 's steward , and the son and Mariane , who is also the object of the father 's desire . |