Example sentences of "as she [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE were today continuing a massive hunt for the man who savagely beat a grandmother in an apparently motiveless attack as she walked her two dogs in woodland at a quiet village . |
| 2 | She nearly lost her balance as she brought her left foot alongside her right , but by bending down and clutching the stone she was able to stay on it . |
| 3 | It almost broke her heart when she saw that darting look of imitation cross his face as she brought him bad news . |
| 4 | Some of them happened , she said , when ‘ her eyes were ever together-ward as if she would have slept ’ , some she saw ‘ with her ghostly eye ’ ; most of her experiences with the Holy Family she describes just as she does her other , more ordinary experiences . |
| 5 | Paintbrush in hand , Kylie recalls the beautiful things in life as she creates her own , very individual , landscapes , portraits and still lifes . |
| 6 | He had always believed her to be promiscuous — now he was probably convinced , she thought bitterly , her face flaming as she recalled her total abandon in his arms . |
| 7 | Laura grinned as she recalled her early teens when she and Liz , together with their school-friend Julie , had spent the holidays climbing trees , swimming , and bicycling around the beautiful Devonshire countryside . |
| 8 | But the more she thought of Silas 's kisses the more infuriated she became , and as she recalled her own response her fury turned to bitter humiliation . |
| 9 | ‘ He likes all women , ’ Kylie giggled as she recalled his masculine effect on her and the other girls in the show . |
| 10 | She deliberately kept her voice casual , one heavy strand of black hair falling across her cheek as she returned his intense scrutiny . |
| 11 | Just as Lydia had gradually grown fond of Betty as she recognised her good qualities , so Betty realising how reprehensible Lydia could be liked her less . |
| 12 | She renewed her make-up , pausing as she met her blue eyes in the mirror . |
| 13 | A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her . |
| 14 | Colour flared in her cheeks as she met his blazing eyes head on . |
| 15 | He stared at her and as she met his shocked gaze she felt tears squeeze out over her lashes with hot , blinding intensity . |
| 16 | as she embroidered your own Viyella gowns |
| 17 | No fool , Celia remembered thinking , as she drove them both back to the home she was soon to vacate . |
| 18 | A white petticoat danced as she lifted her bare right leg . |
| 19 | Mary 's loveliness , then , as she lifted her heavy skirts to seem to skim up the steep wood by the cunning of lightly indented sheep paths , was supported on a diet , a regime of exercise and a purity of mountain air ionised by the nearness to the sea ; it was also — according to Wordsworth — nourished on the place itself and the people and life lived simply there — a life he placed at the heart of the Romantic Movement . |
| 20 | Somehow she stumbled to her feet , Suzie forgotten in the horror of the moment , as she sought her own safety . |
| 21 | No , it did n't ; he still persisted in either standing too close or laying his hand on her arm then watching with amusement as she wrenched herself free . |
| 22 | As she had nothing more to fear , and nothing more to hope for , she lay down . |
| 23 | I shall take Zoe back to Lourdes as soon as she takes her first step as I know she will . |
| 24 | Slide on top of him and slip him into her , gasp with the pleasure and the size of him , warn him to keep still as she reached her first wet climax on top of him , side to side , circular motion , up and down … |
| 25 | Unthinkingly she let her eyes stray to his face , only to flinch abruptly as she realised his deep blue eyes were focused on her , their expression strangely sardonic . |
| 26 | And these questions pursued her , buzzing like mosquitoes , as she walked up Marylebone High Street with her briefcase , as she crossed the Edgware Road , as she joined the conference group for sherry in the Westminster Suite , as she discovered that Edgar had rightly warned her that conversing with Japanese was not easy , as she ate her indifferent luncheon of Maryland chicken , as she listened to Professor Yamamoto speak on Spenser 's reinterpretation of Freud 's interpretation of folie à deux in the classic case of Orphan Eva and her mother , as she delivered her own paper , as she attempted desperately to follow the ensuing discussion , of which she could grasp only one word in ten : all through this crazy jumble of non-language and misunderstanding , of erudition and impenetrable obscurity , of meaningless signs and uninterpretable eye contact , the mosquitoes buzzed and nipped and drew blood . |
| 27 | Besides , Isabel comforted herself , as she concealed her ringless left hand in her skirts , she would never see these people again anyway . |
| 28 | Clips of her conversations with Christine Mills , Marek Nowak and the encounter with Taczek floated before her , flickered like a silent film as she ran her manicured fingernails along the spines of her many books . |
| 29 | Oh , grief , she thought as she discovered his sharp glance on her — she was supposed to be a journalist , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 30 | Once in position , the male begins to nudge her and as she lays her adhesive eggs , he fertilizes them . |