Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so on , as I get her to the bedroom and changed again and into bed . |
| 2 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
| 4 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 5 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 6 | As I follow her into the front room someone whispers to Rufus : ‘ She got him under her thumb , I think . ’ |
| 7 | The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half-hour , seven thirty , as I walked her to the door . |
| 8 | ‘ The vacillating vamp , as you christened her in The Dobblers the other night . ’ |
| 9 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 10 | Harriet hardly dared blink as she watched her through the viewfinder , terrified she might miss the moment she was waiting for . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 12 | As we put her into the chair , she opened her eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Lizzie and Henry again looked at each other as they followed her into the room , and sat on the couch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd take your clothes off now and prove it to you , ’ he said thickly , and his hands were shaking as they held her by the hips . |
| 19 | His eyes narrowed speculatively as they watched her in the mirror . |
| 20 | Quigley had made sure he had stopped hitting me as soon as he heard her on the stairs . |
| 21 | As he saw her to the door , he felt in his pockets . |
| 22 | His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman . |
| 23 | She was overwhelmed by a mixture of terror and relief as he left her at the wheel and went forward to free the line . |
| 24 | ‘ Afraid of the dark ? ’ he said gently , as he shepherded her to the door . |
| 25 | A futile gesture , as he lifted her off the ground , and before she could react she was being carried unceremoniously to the house . |
| 26 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 27 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 29 | His head was spinning as he led her into the reception building . |
| 30 | His eyes were dark as he led her into the bedroom and closed the door behind them . |