Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd gazed at her plate , then at him . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he agreed before lapsing into silence , but not before she 'd seen his face reflect the pleasure he 'd experienced at her instant recognition of what was clearly one of his favourite recordings . |
| 3 | He 'd grinned , he 'd chuckled at her brother , who was sitting very quiet throughout , rather flushed and excited-looking though . |
| 4 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 5 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 6 | He was ashamed of himself , and he leant towards her , and the scent she had dabbed at her neck in the bedroom played at his nostrils . |
| 7 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 8 | He was manifestly rattled about the dousing he had received at her hands . |
| 9 | By the time the lift had stopped at her floor , however , Fabia had left him in no doubt that she was not overjoyed by his nerve . |
| 10 | Now , as on other occasions , David had scoffed at her fears . |
| 11 | Freddie the Nark 's impersonation of a police officer had sounded convincing to him , until he said that Peggie had fallen at her home . |
| 12 | He had spent his grief in the day and night he had sat at her bedside . |
| 13 | Her tone bode no contradiction ; it was the voice so well remembered by all those who , over twelve years , had sat at her feet in a thousand Cabinets . |
| 14 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 15 | He had looked at her papers three months ago , when the posting had been announced , and had noted how well educated she was . |
| 16 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 17 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 18 | But Elaine had also said that the Counsellors had cut open Christina 's head , and that when Elaine had looked at her sister 's body , the head had been empty . |
| 19 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 20 | As he had looked at her Vass 's expression had sobered . |
| 21 | For the first time , tonight , she had looked at her home , really looked at it after Glyn 's observations . |
| 22 | Ace had looked at her scarlet face and his eyes were amused . |
| 23 | Lucy had looked at her aunt in puzzled silence before saying , ‘ No doubt I could find this place — but what on earth do you expect me to do when I get there ? ’ |
| 24 | Indeed Diana 's parents had met at her mother 's coming-out ball in April 1953 , while in her day Raine , Countess Spencer was voted ‘ Deb of the Year ’ . |
| 25 | Just before that , however , Queen Victoria had died at her favourite home in the Isle of White , Osborne House , on 22nd , January 1901 . |
| 26 | Once when he had remonstrated at her sluttishness she had shrugged : |
| 27 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 28 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 29 | It was like a trap-door had opened at her feet . |
| 30 | Today , Abul Ismail had stayed at her side , and now Nicholas had been banished from the sickroom . |