Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 2 | She flung it at him over her shoulder in the hallway before walking into the lounge , choking on the bitterness of knowing that his belief had come too late . |
| 3 | She flung herself at friendship and blurted her thoughts and feelings , jokes and secrets till she had no flora in the lining of her inner spaces to help her absorb her experiences slowly , nutritiously . |
| 4 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 5 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |
| 6 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 7 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 8 | She seated herself at the desk . |
| 9 | At two o'clock she seated herself at a window-table in a restaurant overlooking the Nile , near where the houseboat was moored . |
| 10 | She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room . |
| 11 | And she wagged it at him , saying , ‘ You are an infant . |
| 12 | A pang of yearning stabbed her , but she banished it at once . |
| 13 | Ashi smiled as she knotted it at her throat . |
| 14 | She draped it at my neck and sprayed it with her perfume : it still smells faintly of Chanel . |
| 15 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 16 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 17 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 18 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 19 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 20 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 21 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 22 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 23 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 24 | Then she found herself at Lodge offices , where Ethel Mitchell was still working . |
| 25 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 26 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 27 | She started work at 14 and by the time she found herself at Vons she 'd held a variety of jobs . |
| 28 | She found herself at a loss for words . |
| 29 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 30 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |