Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idly she picks at the flap , but it is still stuck down ; no one has opened it , no one has read the book , it is still intact . |
| 2 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 3 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 4 | The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend . |
| 5 | Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her . |
| 6 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 7 | Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage . |
| 8 | Now she laughs at the recollection . |
| 9 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 10 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 11 | Unthinkingly she glanced at the clock on the bedside-table and tears stung her eyes . |
| 12 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
| 13 | Mutinously she stared at the ground . |
| 14 | And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete . |
| 15 | Then she stared at the picture for a full minute . |
| 16 | She used Peter 's knife to cut off the boot , then she looked at the broken leg . |
| 17 | And then she looked at the empty stairway beside her . |
| 18 | Then she screamed at the children . |
| 19 | Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence . |
| 20 | Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook . |
| 21 | While there she spoke at the International Gerontological Congress . |
| 22 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 23 | Idiotically she stared at the receiver in her hands and then dropped it back on its hook . |