The phrase "as she retrieved" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action occurring simultaneously with the act of retrieving something.
Example: "As she retrieved the book from the shelf, she noticed a small note tucked between the pages."
Alternatives: "while she collected" or "as she picked up".
As she retrieved the lot she accidentally stepped on my towel.
Then the look passed away as she retrieved, with an effort, some bantering grace.
They already had, to my mind, as she retrieved the signs and tossed them on a table.
He watched as she retrieved an old section of newspaper and began to wrap the cover of the book he'd given her.
"Every time I go to the doctor, I've lost another inch," Judy said, straining as she retrieved a photo album from a high shelf.
But as she retrieved her old notes, she recalled being stunned at seeing that he told her that he had cirrhosis but had continued to drink.
The camera remains on her as she retrieves his egg and then sags back down into her chair.
She emailed a list of worries I immediately identified with, which included burglars getting in through the doggie door, a troublemaker watching as she retrieves her hide-a-key, and the porch ceiling crashing with someone aloft on the hanging swing. 5.
And then, as he ate, she retrieved a hammer from her handbag and struck him more than 20 times over the head.
The four pieces here on Sylvia Plath have their moments of strange detachment from, and foggy memory of, the life, but are marvellously clear-eyed about the work - how she retrieved, as if 'from inner dictation', the poetry she had to write rather than the poetry she thought she wanted to write.
She assumed the police had recorded it as pickpocketing, but when she retrieved a copy of the report days later, she saw it was recorded not as a crime, but as lost property that had gone "missing in an unknown manner".
