Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art and Antiques are looking at her husband 's business . |
| 2 | Petula has been living at her London home this year while Claude has stayed in Geneva . |
| 3 | However , they 're not too obtrusive , they do sort of when you 're looking at her shoulder here and her hand was n't there I could well imagine that you 'd get a bright highlight off her shoulder , so maybe putting hands there it has helped in er , er to , to eliminate that . |
| 4 | ‘ Whoever did it must have been aiming at her head but thankfully they missed . |
| 5 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 6 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 7 | However , as she walked she felt he must be looking at her back as she walked away . |
| 8 | Angel explained that she would be staying at her mother 's while he went to Brazil alone to see if the country was suitable . |
| 9 | Yeah , I said yeah , I mean it is , I said , you come tomorrow if you like bedrooms are ready , but you see she 'll be staying at her mum 's some time |
| 10 | Only the realisation that he would soon be arriving at her door finally roused her from her misery , spurred her into action . |
| 11 | She 's been hacking at her hair again . |
| 12 | Nana 's small , knobbled hands were picking at her skirt , a sure sign of agitation . |
| 13 | A former Bunny girl with striking looks and a keen brain , she was a charismatic figure to the American public and soon film makers were queuing at her jail cell door . |
| 14 | There was authority in his voice and she felt a great surge of relief , as if he were plucking at her pain and releasing it . |
| 15 | Lynn is shouting at her baby . |
| 16 | She is staring at her throat in the bathroom mirror . |
| 17 | There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger . |
| 18 | Amid the boy 's triple obsession with sex , cricket and poetry , incidents prefigure insurgent communal hatreds , from Roshan 's ambivalence at kissing the pok-tainted lips of a Christian to a Hindu teacher 's beating at her brothers ' hands for her affair with the Muslim schoolboy . |
| 19 | Mrs Kizza is working at her ancient treadle sewing-machine , making busuutis , the traditional Ugandan dress for women . |
| 20 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 21 | He was gazing at her left cheekbone , though , and absently swatting the air . |
| 22 | He was gazing at her breasts again . |
| 23 | Maria was sobbing with desire as she felt his hands push insistently at her thighs , and then the rigid flesh she had freed to her caress just moments previously was nudging at her body , demanding entry and release . |
| 24 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 25 | He was laughing at her inexperience , making her feel gauche and defenceless . |
| 26 | Her breath was tearing at her throat , the stitch in her side was like a knife , but still she raced on . |
| 27 | Alice Fernie was shouting at her husband . |
| 28 | Chantal , too , was picking at her plate without enthusiasm . |
| 29 | Across the room a young man , eating on his own , was looking at her mother , and not innocently , either . |
| 30 | Well , I called in there today for cigars and I saw this young woman ; and you remember the one that was in the sweet shop , she was so nice and obliging ; well I thought I was looking at her twin . |