Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] she at the " in BNC.

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1 Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows .
2 She turned , looking about her at the stables .
3 Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land .
4 Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station .
5 She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot .
6 ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword .
7 Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time .
8 Looking round her at the cushions , Ellie spotted one with a Regency man and woman on it .
9 She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship .
10 Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom .
11 Uncle Alfred was waiting for her at the entrance to the nest when she arrived .
12 The manager was waiting for her at the desk , deftly fidgeting with a half-stuffed peregrine falcon .
13 For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte .
14 She was floating along the aisle of a dimly lit church , the only reality the beautiful white dress she was wearing and the man waiting for her at the altar , and even he was shrouded in a mist , preventing her from seeing his face .
15 Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient .
16 Fernando was waiting for her at the kerbside , leaning against his white convertible Mercedes .
17 They were already waiting for her at the field , but she had no objection to being hustled aboard .
18 She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones .
19 Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday .
20 ‘ I just called by to give Guy a message from my father , ’ the blonde was murmuring , glancing behind her at the half-open front door , then smiling at Virginia with such patent insincerity that she 'd have laughed if she had n't felt like crying her heart out instead …
21 No P C er was erm dealing with her at the time .
22 Meg was busy trying on hats at the far side of the room , the android assistant standing beside her at the mirror , a stack of round , candy-striped boxes in her arms .
23 Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him .
24 The return of Lady Eleanor with a pile of fine linen shifts scarcely registered with Isabel as a rapid succession of images flashed through her mind : fitzAlan confronting the Empress with that cold , relentless logic ; wounded and feverish in the hut , but still in control of both her and the situation ; swinging his sword with savage , deadly grace at the ford ; leaning over her at the inn this morning ; holding her …
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