Example sentences of "she [vb -s] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scientific writers , novelists and poets , ’ she insists at the outset , ‘ can all be found putting forward similar views of humanity , society and nature , often by means of similar language and imagery , ’ |
| 2 | She phoned , and she goes at no she goes , she said to mummy that she 's gon na drop off some clothes cos they have n't been washed erm let , one of them lot washing . |
| 3 | She turns at once to the Women 's page , where there is a Posy Simmonds strip cartoon adroitly satirizing middle-aged , middle-class liberals , an article on the iniquities of the Unborn Children ( Protection ) Bill , and a report on the struggle for women 's liberation in Portugal . |
| 4 | Yet if she plays at telling the truth , she also plays with the telling of the truth . |
| 5 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 6 | She sits at the table and smiles , asking firmly for a solo-brandy and coke in separate glasses . |
| 7 | She sits at her dressing-table and vigorously brushes her hair , a mop of copper-coloured curls , natural curls , as tight and springy as coiled steel . |
| 8 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 9 | She sits at a tea table with MR . |
| 10 | On the spectator 's left ( fig. 127 ) a Lapith drags down a Centaur who with right hand against the ground resists the pressure while his left is still buried in a woman 's hair and drags her down with him as she claws at his beard with back-stretched hand . |
| 11 | She laughs at herself as a girl again . |
| 12 | Now she laughs at the recollection . |
| 13 | And she laughs at me . |
| 14 | No , ever , everything we say she laughs at . |
| 15 | ( She points at Ant . ) |
| 16 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 17 | She understands at once . |
| 18 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 19 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 20 | Ad she wants at least sixteen leafleters this weekends . |
| 21 | she wants at least twenty four hours on one |
| 22 | ‘ She lives at Buckingham Palace . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She lives at Gateshead , sir , a hundred miles away . |
| 24 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 25 | She lives at the other end , Blackberry Lane , I 'm not sure of the number , but I was told she has a monkey puzzle tree in her front garden . |
| 26 | She lives at home with her family . |
| 27 | She lives at Sheringham . |
| 28 | Ascot , cos she lives at Ascot |
| 29 | She lives at Martlesham . |
| 30 | well if she still does it did n't make it clear , and she lives at Knilton |