Example sentences of "she [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 2 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 3 | She gazed at little Ivan , bent down to kiss him . |
| 4 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 5 | She demonstrated at five group stores in the Osaka region throughout October . |
| 6 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 7 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 8 | She seemed at any rate , to satisfy lodgers . |
| 9 | She toiled at unending tasks . |
| 10 | She vanished at full tilt towards the kitchen-garden and the orchards . |
| 11 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 12 | She marvelled at this phenomenon , but was humbly grateful that her mind worked in this way . |
| 13 | Sometimes she hinted at young men , she teased him , but more and more , Parr became convinced that she was faithful — as he was to her — because she loved him . |
| 14 | She laughed at that expression which she had n't heard in years . |
| 15 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 17 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 18 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 19 | Two heart attacks later , she died at one P M. |
| 20 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 21 | We shall tell the full story of Charles Frederick Titford in due course ; enough for now to say that he would be outlived by his widowed mother , who was 80 when she died at 24 Warner Street , Lower Holloway , on 4 March 1902 , ‘ Widow of Benjamin Titford , Commercial clerk ’ . |
| 22 | She clutched at these landmarks as her heart soared like a kite , time day and place an anchor to the swooping light of love . |
| 23 | She looked at 100 village plans and assessed them as regular or partly regular . |
| 24 | She looked at all sorts of alternative medicine and found that homeopathy was very effective for Angela 's condition of breathlessness and collapse . |
| 25 | She looked at each side of the gate , but a thick hedge divided the wood from the field . |
| 26 | She looked at this moment more terrifying than ever before . |
| 27 | She looked at these objects in my hands for some time and then raised her eyes to my face . |
| 28 | She saw at first hand the imperialist arrogance of the British in her mother country , aptly illustrated by the signs in the parks which baldly stated ‘ no dogs or Chinese allowed ’ . |
| 29 | She assisted at French cave excavations , including La Quina in Charente , where she was introduced to Neanderthal man and his Mousterian culture , thereafter to be a central interest . |
| 30 | She felt at one level that this was no worse than she deserved . |