Example sentences of "as she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others , presumably , would have known just as much as she cared to tell them . |
| 2 | The very thought had crossed his mind only the day before , when he contemplated giving up doctoring , as she kept telling him to . |
| 3 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 4 | As quietly and uncomplainingly as she had lived she slipped away in her sleep at two o'clock in the morning of 21 October . |
| 5 | " Do n't let the bugs bite " She said the words without thinking , just as she had said them almost every night of her life . |
| 6 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 7 | She kicked herself as soon as she had said it . |
| 8 | It was too confrontational , she realised as soon as she had said it , seeing something spark in his eyes , the instinctive , age-old masculine response to the sort of rejection men would always interpret as a challenge . |
| 9 | It drove Camille mad : she would lose her temper as she had lost it when still in her pram and would wave her limbs and bellow while furious tears fell to collect under her chin . |
| 10 | As she had dressed she 'd kept on asking herself why he had come . |
| 11 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 12 | Bella shook her head as she had shaken it since childhood when she thought about her sister 's foolishness in almost everything . |
| 13 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 14 | As she had worn it before — long ago . |
| 15 | The children had stood for a moment , awestruck in the hall , as she had hoped they might , amazed at the broad stone staircase , the hanging lantern and the dark portraits of who ? |
| 16 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 17 | And as she stood at the window she seemed to hear again , as clearly as she had heard it two days before , the sound of Henrietta screaming . |
| 18 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 19 | Julian felt no pity , only a detached curiosity and wonder ; for he was not quite as she had imagined him , neither so malevolent nor so formidable . |
| 20 | Love with such a person , Miranda knew , would be exactly as she had imagined it : ringed with radiance , and tenderness and glamour , larger than life , more brightly-coloured , just like the movies . |
| 21 | He loves you , ’ said Comfort , and Julia believed her as she had believed her all those years before when Comfort had been urging her to fall in love with him . |
| 22 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 23 | Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway . |
| 24 | Claudia looked at Dana 's angry face and knew that if Roman had proposed she would have told her , triumphantly , as soon as she had seen her , accident or no accident . |
| 25 | The van loaded with newspapers appeared in the gates , its sinister gleaming look telling everyone to hate it ; the pickets surged forward , shouting ; and there was Jasper , as she had seen him so often , his pale face distorted with a look of abstracted and dedicated hate , his reddish crop of gleaming hair . |
| 26 | She , of course , had plunged , dived , tumbled , plummeted heart-first straight into desperate love for Miles as soon as she had seen him . |
| 27 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 28 | Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ? |
| 29 | And then it occurred to Cathy that although the old man was lying exactly as she had seen him , something had changed . |
| 30 | And , as she had invited her to have another look around , it was almost seven o'clock by the time Leith turned into the select avenue of her present home . |