Example sentences of "as she come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 2 | Do n't interfere , Eva , ’ he said , as she came into the room , alarmed by our shouting . |
| 3 | ‘ Good evening , Conrad , ’ Philippa said as she came into the room and bestowed a kiss on his bald patch , saint blessing sinner , and then called out to Larry whom she had seen going in as she walked up the hill with her offerings . |
| 4 | He did not raise his head as she came into the room , and not once in the short interview which followed did he look at her . |
| 5 | It is a rarity for a horse of Lyric Fantasy 's ability to be offered for public sale , and the Park Paddocks ' arena at Newmarket was packed as she came into the ring . |
| 6 | As she came into the room we rose to greet her . |
| 7 | She nodded , understanding his signal , as she came into the room . |
| 8 | As she came into the restaurant , the Hungarian band was playing Leslie Stuart 's Soldiers of the Queen , revived for the Jubilee . |
| 9 | Anne exclaimed as she came into the . |
| 10 | Myra asked as she came into the office carrying a mug of tea . |
| 11 | She really is perfect in this setting , Rupert thought , as she came into the room . |
| 12 | " You can ask Miss Monroe if you do n't believe me , " Sandra Fairfax cried and flashed Sara a mischievous look as she came into the garden . |
| 13 | Helen sounded amused as she came into the room . |
| 14 | Hiding a grin , Geoffrey took the heavy child from her as she came to the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | Alice saw the musicians as she came to the end of the passage . |
| 16 | It was as she came to the end of her enthusiastic little speech that she realised she was leaning halfway across his desk , so close that she could almost have counted his lashes and the tiny fine lines around the corners of his mouth . |
| 17 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 18 | The spell was broken by her aunt as she came across the lawn , devoid of her apron now , her long cotton dress flapping against her thin legs . |
| 19 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 20 | But , as she came down the steps of the beautiful russet Georgian house , first impressions were very depressing . |
| 21 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 22 | ‘ Nana , you know , I ca n't cross the fording in my shoes any more , ’ she began as she came through the gap in the severely-clipped hedge . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't have to do that , Hank , ’ she said , as she came through the back gate . |
| 24 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 25 | She heard Agnes begin to protest as she came through the doorway , and called out , ‘ Benedict ! ’ |
| 26 | Laying her basket down , she ran towards the shriek , her feet slipping on the loose ground as she came under the trees , until she finished with an uncontrollable slide that landed her almost on top of Oz . |
| 27 | The babe was fretful with teething , but as she came along the corridor she heard a gentle humming above the baby 's wails . |
| 28 | ‘ Hullo , darling ! ’ she said , as she came round the kitchen door in her black trouser-suit , her black hair swept back under an Alice band . |