Example sentences of "as she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I need some advice , after all , ’ Hilary said quietly as she walked up to the little group . |
| 2 | She was white-faced but determined and the policemen stood back as she walked over towards the car . |
| 3 | The Land Rover engine rumbled on as she walked round to the driver 's door and waited for him to look at her . |
| 4 | Annie disregarded the remark and as she walked out of the side door pushing the baby carriage Bessie turned to her employer . |
| 5 | The abortioned girl stared after Rachaela as she walked out of the gate and back along the street . |
| 6 | As she walked out of the workshop , she looked back at the flat they had been painting . |
| 7 | The memory of the outcome brought a smile to her face on that Saturday morning as she walked down towards the crouching figure of Aggie . |
| 8 | Jack was just arriving as she walked back into the department , and a police car drew up with the still-hysterical mother inside . |
| 9 | Hari was angry as she walked back through the streets towards her home , Emily Grenfell was nothing but a snob , she thought everyone beneath her . |
| 10 | Lisa smiled to herself as she walked back along the corridor that led to the drawing-room and the conservatory . |
| 11 | As she walked back towards the Presbytery to interview Father Kipling , she did not feel unhappy any more . |
| 12 | Ari felt very old as she walked back to the group . |
| 13 | ‘ Bun voyage , ’ she called aloud to him , and it was possible to discern a dance of relieved joy in her step as she walked back to the limousine . |
| 14 | ‘ Come here , ’ she said as she walked back to the fireplace . |
| 15 | As she walked back to the barn she thought about what the marquis had said . |
| 16 | Lucy went — and as she walked back to the office she wondered what had got into her to cause such unruliness of her tongue and to bring her claws to the surface . |
| 17 | It was so clear in his mind , he could hear his nan 's voice , even smell that strangely comforting smell of scorched linen as she pressed down on the iron , and yet he had understood little of their conversation at the time , had n't understood , in fact , until years later . |
| 18 | For as she pressed back against the front door , trembling and bewildered , she saw what was in substance her own house . |
| 19 | Praying , as she sidled along to the changing-room , that no one would ever know how utterly wrong she had been … |
| 20 | Indeed Laura often said so : ‘ Twin souls , Matt , ’ she would drawl , as she lolled back on the velvet cushions which covered the floor of her apartment . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , Leo , ’ she sighed as she relaxed back against the rug . |
| 22 | She may work within a paradigm , and not be uninfluenced by how her mind was formed as she grew up within the discipline of science . |
| 23 | She tried to cheer up as she drove on to the ferry because — having caved in instantly and completely when Cara had asked ‘ Would you let me down — now ? ’ she had ensured that Cara could fly to Barney certain of one thing , if nothing else : that , her word given , she would not let her down . |
| 24 | But as she drove out of the city , heading for the road bridge and the Kilpatrick Hills on the north bank of the Clyde , she could feel the tension in her tightening . |
| 25 | Sophie relayed the information to Mr Miller , who shrugged irritably and told her to be as quick as possible , but the traffic was heavy as she drove out of the town and all the time she was praying that the cat 's leg would not be really broken . |
| 26 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 27 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 28 | Even as she glanced out of the bedroom window , while changing into a riding habit , Gareth Davis approached the front door leading Moonbeam and Stephen 's magnificent black horse , Lightning . |
| 29 | Robyn thought as she glanced out of the window , re-reading the sign that gave her enormous satisfaction every time she had occasion to see it . |
| 30 | I stared at her , transfixed , as she stepped over to the scaly green cupboard where she kept all of her books . |