Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 2 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 3 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 4 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 5 | They remained a week in the Ottoman capital , by no means long enough for Miss Logan to become accustomed to the coarse stares she received at the table d'hôte . |
| 6 | The chasm between her and the other writers is most apparent in comments she made at the ‘ Nouveau roman : hier , aujourd'hui ’ conference at Cerisy in 1972 , in which she clung resolutely to her conviction of the existence of a pre-verbal , extra-textual reality in mental life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Every few seconds she looked at the ground and shook her head . |
| 9 | For a few moments she stared at the tawny eagle and then at Mr Wolski , and he looked at her . |
| 10 | She had n't got many clothes she liked at the moment . |
| 11 | On two previous occasions she stayed at the home of Virgin tycoon Richard Branson on Necker Island . |