Example sentences of "[vb past] at her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She chewed at her lower lip . |
| 32 | The only other person privy to the beating of the retreat was a young kitchenmaid , who stared at her future monarch in amazement . |
| 33 | Thérèse stared at her black patent shoes , those twin vices crushing her toes , telling her to take her feet away . |
| 34 | Claudia stared at her linked fingers and planned to get away as soon as they stopped . |
| 35 | She murmured good morning , sat down and stared at her open notebook , the tip of her pen poised above the clean page . |
| 36 | She stopped and stared at her own face in the mirror . |
| 37 | She sat down before the dressing-table , automatically picking up a hairbrush , but the sight of her own reflection in the mirror distracted her , and for long moments she simply stared at her own face , as if seeing it through the eyes of a stranger . |
| 38 | Eleanor Thorne laughed at her young self . |
| 39 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 40 | His head went back and he laughed at her mutinous expression , the glint in his eyes deepening , before leaning forward again and addressing her with quiet insistence . |
| 41 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 42 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 43 | She laughed at her own silliness . |
| 44 | She laughed at her own joke . |
| 45 | She laughed at her own image . |
| 46 | ‘ Besides , you promised to lend them your house for their wedding night , ’ he completed blandly , and laughed at her frank astonishment . |
| 47 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 48 | She shrugged , looked at her long fingers , flexed them . |
| 49 | He looked at her cardboard tray , and his face cleared a little . |
| 50 | He looked at her perturbed face . |
| 51 | He looked at her odd appearance and then frowned . |
| 52 | I looked at her dark face , filled with a mixture of anger and hurt , then at little Mary beside her who , over the years , solemnly drank in the insults offered to her beloved mother . |
| 53 | l Louise looked at her young son and suggested he might like to take his easel on to the patio . |
| 54 | Polly looked at her scribbled notes , then shrugged . |
| 55 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 56 | He looked at her delicate hands and pale face . |
| 57 | As you can probably tell from my figure , ’ and she looked at her plump legs with satisfaction , ‘ I like my food ! ’ |
| 58 | Then he looked at her scarlet face , at the awful misery in her eyes and did n't want to laugh any more . |
| 59 | He looked at her white face and the dark fear in her eyes and felt a brute . |
| 60 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |