Example sentences of "as she [adv] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth shaped into an astonished circle as she slowly studied him again . |
| 2 | ‘ A — Adam ? ’ she faltered , clumsily pushing the damp tendrils of hair from her face , as she slowly lifted her head to look up at him . |
| 3 | Miss Honey waited , trembling a little herself and watching the child as she slowly stirred herself back into consciousness . |
| 4 | When the flow of tears slowly began to dry up she gratefully accepted the use of his handkerchief , drying her eyes and fiercely blowing her nose as she slowly raised her head from his chest . |
| 5 | She prayed the guttering would hold her weight as she slowly hauled herself up until she could sit astride the peak of the roof . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll give it up , you know , everything , ’ she told him as she absently towelled her wet hair . |
| 7 | Fleeting images of Ace masterfully entering her room , of him delightfully forcing his attentions on her slowly died as she finally made herself ready for bed . |
| 8 | She gave a derisive laugh as she again inclined her head towards the far wall , then said , ‘ That fellow 's preciseness gets up my nose . |
| 9 | Yes , you are ! ’ he repeated as she fervently shook her head . |
| 10 | He was silent , as she carefully replaced his sleeping member where she had got it from , and buttoned his fly . |
| 11 | To his surprise , she stopped when she reached Mark 's chair and took the vacant seat beside him , nodding casually in his direction and flashing a devastating smile as she carefully arranged herself on display . |
| 12 | Suddenly , as she later told her friends , she found herself overwhelmed by his enthusiastic attentions . |
| 13 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 14 | The laughter turned to gurgling , as she willingly opened her mouth to receive the gushing stream of piss . |
| 15 | When she awoke the next morning , however , she was able to put all such thoughts firmly from her mind as she simply strengthened her resolve to keep her relationship with David Markham purely on a professional basis . |
| 16 | She was also smiling broadly , and offering to shake hands , which must count as some kind of first , Sabine thought as she hastily wiped her own hand on her shorts . |
| 17 | I 'm going to tell her now , but she wo n't mind a bit , ’ said Breeze , as she hastily finished her letter and went in search of her sister . |
| 18 | Her words were ringing in her ears as she eventually made her way through Customs . |
| 19 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 20 | But Joanna , who starred in TV 's New Avengers , looked happy enough as she openly displayed her scents of achievement ! |
| 21 | The Aunts always used to say she was selfish because of this , but her argument was that as she never wanted anyone to do anything for her unless it gave them pleasure , she never did anything for anyone unless it gave her pleasure . |
| 22 | Thus Flavia was unable to feel a sense of kinship with people who were not decisively older than herself , who were not real grown-ups as she still called them . |
| 23 | I could well imagine her lecturing : she would be wearing a mortar-board and gown perhaps , her head on one side as she usually held it when talking ; and her eyes would be twinkling , as she held forth in that clear , incisive , ‘ educated ’ voice of hers . |
| 24 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 25 | And because her bag was light , with only Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin in it , and her hopes as high as she ever allowed them to be , she smiled at everybody else who came her way , the fishmonger , the old-clothes dealer pushing his cart with its flea-ridden bundles ; the organ-grinder whose emaciated monkey , cowering sadly on his shoulder , always caused her a stab of pain : |
| 26 | My father loved my mother but this girl Katya he loved foolishly ; as she indeed loved him . |
| 27 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 28 | She got out of the bath and gave herself a mental shake as she quickly towelled herself dry . |
| 29 | Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer . |
| 30 | Charming , thought Isabel indignantly , as she cautiously felt her way into the hut . |