Example sentences of "[vb past] as she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 2 | Eva grumbled as she stood in the cold , carrying her case . |
| 3 | There was something about the atmosphere of a theatre that never failed to stir her blood , Shannon mused as she walked along the corridors . |
| 4 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 5 | Anne exclaimed as she came into the . |
| 6 | It 's a dream for me to be here making an album with them ’ she added as she arrived in the UK five months after her visit to record ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ . |
| 7 | Mrs Appleby nodded as she cut into the pork pie . |
| 8 | The shunt happened as she turned into the drive of Ludgrove School , at Wokingham , Berks . |
| 9 | But what she forgot as she jogged on the spot was that even though time might have stood still for her , it has moved on for her 31-year-old husband Slim Jim McDonald . |
| 10 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 11 | She sighed as she thought of the constant drudgery . |
| 12 | A young ‘ chic ’ girl placed herself in his empty place , fixing her eye liner in the fake sun light of the train , sighed as she looked around the carriage and then smiled to herself , there was obviously no competition so she failed to add an extra layer of lip-stick . |
| 13 | Emily sighed as she stood in the shabby kitchen . |
| 14 | She sighed as she padded through the spacious , marble-floored apartment to the kitchen to rinse out the glasses before her shower — if she did n't wash them Steve would n't . |
| 15 | ‘ Nana , you know , I ca n't cross the fording in my shoes any more , ’ she began as she came through the gap in the severely-clipped hedge . |
| 16 | Lucy giggled as she thought of the small room next to her own . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't afford me , ’ she giggled as she fled to the bathroom . |
| 18 | Bernice grinned as she walked into the Conference Room . |
| 19 | Fabia smiled , and discovered as she stood under the shower , that she was cheerfully humming a snatch of one of Dvořák 's Humoresques . |
| 20 | The crowd had parted to let them through , and Kathleen 's fear for herself vanished as she took in the scene . |
| 21 | Elizabeth collapsed as she walked to the pool with her dad , mum Arlene , 32 , and their two other children — Caroline , 10 , and David , 9 . |
| 22 | Carrie shuddered as she walked along the landing to one of the rear front doors . |
| 23 | Terry called as she burst into the room . |
| 24 | Up until then Kylie 's biggest audience had been an adoring family and friends who watched as she pranced around the lounge impersonating her favourite pop stars . |
| 25 | Her head ached : she could encompass no more , She felt as she felt at the end of some long and erudite lecture in a foreign tongue ; her mind would no longer pay attention . |
| 26 | All she felt as she lay in the dark was that Nicky could not satisfy her . |
| 27 | If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm a ballet dancer , ’ she said , and they laughed as she pattered across the floor on her tip-toes . |
| 29 | She spread her towel over a cushion so that she could lean her damp , aching head against it , then shivered as she listened to the howl of the wind outside . |
| 30 | She shivered as she thought of the creature who might even now be stalking the velvet blackness outside , looking up at the lighted windows , deciding whether or not to break in . |