Example sentences of "soon as she [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ?
2 As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser .
3 She kicked herself as soon as she had said it .
4 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 .
5 As soon as she had achieved her purpose , she would see that the boat was returned .
6 As soon as she had gone Phil was out of bed again and , with a half-fearful look at Arty , put on his dressing gown and sauntered out to spread the news .
7 But almost as soon as she had crossed the Channel , Leslie began to feel ill and off-colour .
8 As soon as she had announced this fact , she pushed past him roughly , on her way to the kitchen .
9 Ianthe had always wanted a house of her own and as soon as she had shut the door behind her she forgot the lonely homecoming in the pleasure she still felt at seeing her furniture and possessions in their new setting .
10 It was perfectly true ; she had had a friend once who 'd changed personality at the drop of a hat as soon as she had conceived .
11 As soon as she had given the injection she massaged the area briskly to help the dispersal of the drug .
12 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 .
13 But she had known as soon as she had seen the glazed eye that this was death .
14 She , of course , had plunged , dived , tumbled , plummeted heart-first straight into desperate love for Miles as soon as she had seen him .
15 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 .
16 Was this what she had felt as soon as she had seen him — a man who would interfere with her life ?
17 As soon as she had realized that he was making no attempt to disguise his liking for her , she had known that there was no hope .
18 Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening .
19 They were not feeling too bad , considering , although Karen , as soon as she had awoken , had been flooded with guilty thoughts — the pangs unmodified , this morning , by champagne or brandy .
20 It was darker inside the cottage than she had expected , and as soon as she had opened the door , she knew that there was something terribly wrong .
21 He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture .
22 As soon as she had forced down the last of her food , she pushed her plate away and stood up .
23 Meryl extricated a copy of the Sunday Shocker from the rack with as much nonchalance as she could muster , and hid it within the folds of her own more conservative newspaper as soon as she had paid for them both .
24 And , as soon as she had paid the driver and he had gone on his way she stood for some moments , looking at Ven 's house , photographing it in her mind 's eye because she knew — she would never come this way again .
25 Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor .
26 ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before .
27 As soon as she had spoken , she regretted the words .
28 As soon as she had spoken , she felt embarrassed .
29 As soon as she had disappeared through the front doorway , Jessamy swung round to face Julius .
30 As soon as she had recovered from the months of Rhoda 's illness , and come to terms with her death , and adjusted to the sudden change in her circumstances , she would do something about it .
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