Example sentences of "she [vb past] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 2 | She gazed at the moonlit/sunlit clouds below her — desert , lakes , river-ribbons , an ocean . |
| 3 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 4 | She glanced at the brief details on the card Jill handed to her before smiling at the man . |
| 5 | Between 1979 and 1982 , she worked at the Foreign Relations Office of the Chinese Writers ' Association . |
| 6 | She stared at the shifting colours and shapes , remote and isolated , hearing the voices and noise of music playing inside . |
| 7 | Breathing deeply , fighting sudden fresh tears , she stared at the whitewashed walls of the tiny , tidy yard . |
| 8 | Crawling a little closer to the heat , she wrapped herself up and lay down , pillowing her head on her arm as she stared at the flickering flames . |
| 9 | She clutched at the slithery sides but there was no grip . |
| 10 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 11 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 12 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 13 | She looked at the handsome features framed by thick , straight dark hair , and into a pair of brown eyes set beneath dark brows . |
| 14 | She looked at the stiff carnations from Carlo San Lorenzo . |
| 15 | She looked at the rigid contours of his face and wanted to run , but her feet felt like lead weights . |
| 16 | She looked at the empty tables . |
| 17 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 18 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 19 | She pointed at the minutely-decorated walls . |