Example sentences of "[noun] as she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The car , the one the girl was in , if it was a Zil as she says , then it was seen by a policeman , ’ Myeloski told Duncan . |
| 2 | She felt towards her religion as she imagined some women felt towards their dreary , loveless marriages : something trying , but inescapable ; cluttered with apparently futile chores , yet from which there was no question of escaping . |
| 3 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 4 | She paused and I could hear her brain cells creaking into action as she reached out a hand covered in enough costume jewellery to make a decent knuckle-duster . |
| 5 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 6 | He shot her an enigmatic glance as she stepped on board the powerful speed-launch , scene of the dramatic rescue that first night . |
| 7 | Rune had given her a sharp glance as she replied , but then appeared to accept her question as an affirmative , as he took her firmly by the arm to lead her into his chosen restaurant . |
| 8 | She shot him a suspicious glance as she began combing his hair . |
| 9 | Lucy sent Silas a side glance as she said , ‘ When I first arrived you said it might be arranged for me to see a kiwi , but I 'll quite understand … ’ |
| 10 | She sent Jean a quick glance as she said , ‘ We 'll put those dishes through the machine . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Today is Thursday ’ Miss Matthews gave Melissa a sidelong glance as she inserted a key in the lock of Mrs Rogers ' front door . |
| 12 | The thought brought her up short , and she pulled away from his kiss , sending him a quick horrified glance as she wondered once again if he had been able to read her mind . |
| 13 | Greg thought back on the Hilda he had known with a surge of affection : he could almost see her , chuckling over the typewriter as she composed the letter . |
| 14 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 15 | She was lifting her skirt as she hurried to him , and he could see her ankles . |
| 16 | The two younger boys , Dick and John , clung to her skirt as she told Sarah how good Abel was to her . |
| 17 | Madame rearranged her skirt as she sat back in her chair . |
| 18 | And in Carrie 's dream , the fingers reached out for her , plucking at her hair and her skirt as she ran . |
| 19 | Something white flew out of her swirling skirt as she ran , fluttered its way , unnoticed , to the ground . |
| 20 | Smoothing down her skirt as she seated herself , she reached over and started up the secondary computer . |
| 21 | ‘ Any use to you ? ’ he asked , snapping open his eyes as he heard the rustle of her skirt as she changed position . |
| 22 | He heard the coffee-cup as she put it down , then the soft swish of her skirt as she crossed the room and sat on the chair again . |
| 23 | The hair bare bunch : Christy Turlington proves too sexy for her wig as she sashays for Jean Paul Gaultier |
| 24 | Paula designed a motif of a horse as she is with horses all the time and regularly goes eventing . |
| 25 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 26 | The water clashed in her ears as she went down and down . |
| 27 | The hollow sounds of doors banging and footsteps receding echoed in her ears as she stepped inside the sparsely furnished room . |
| 28 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 29 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 30 | The wind buffeted her ears as she wondered again what had made Luke bring her to this particular place . |