Example sentences of "[prep] she at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 2 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 3 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 4 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 5 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 6 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 7 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 8 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 9 | He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword . |
| 11 | THE Queen is so delighted with a bronze statuette of her at the Trooping the Colour by amateur sculptor Bob White , of Leeds , that she has asked to keep it . |
| 12 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 13 | As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table . |
| 14 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 15 | ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’ |
| 16 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 17 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 18 | She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom . |
| 19 | ‘ I just called by to give Guy a message from my father , ’ the blonde was murmuring , glancing behind her at the half-open front door , then smiling at Virginia with such patent insincerity that she 'd have laughed if she had n't felt like crying her heart out instead … |
| 20 | Victor had bragged , absurdly , that he 'd had a five a.m. rendezvous with her at a private house in Cadogan Square , just before her flight to Poland , and that ‘ the earth had moved ’ . |
| 21 | Laura shared rooms in the small terraced house with Alice Cox , a young lady who worked with her at a local Post Office . |
| 22 | But later , finding myself sharing a sofa with her at a friend 's dinner-party , I mentioned the film and that I understood she had approved of it . |
| 23 | HERE 'S someone to make tennis ace Monica Seles really grunt and groan — Hollywood heart-throb Pierce Brosnan , spotted with her at a tournament in Los Angeles . |
| 24 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 25 | He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner . |
| 26 | You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments . |
| 27 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |
| 28 | Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time . |
| 29 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 30 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |