Example sentences of "she [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without her I would n't be here , ’ she admitted at the time . |
| 2 | She quivered at the slide of his hand around the sensitive skin behind her ears , and tried to shake his hands off her hair without success . |
| 3 | Now her head dipped as she pried at the fissure of a half-split nail . |
| 4 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
| 5 | She demonstrated her apparent unawareness of her position in the speech she made at the opening of the church hall in Kensington to which the grocer John Barker , from whom she bought provisions , had contributed . |
| 6 | She lived at the top of Tennyson Tower — ‘ It was that or Maid Marian , ’ she remarked , as they swung its glass door , her voice distantly scornful . |
| 7 | The smears on the television had gone so she gazed at the reflection of the sunlight on the blank screen instead . |
| 8 | She gazed at the ceiling , feeling her heartbeat and breathing slowing to normal , her body quietening . |
| 9 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 10 | She gazed at the girl 's wild-rose cheeks and half-closed eyes . |
| 11 | As she gazed at the floor , unable to look at him , there flashed across her mind that image of two figures walking together along the path from the beach . |
| 12 | She gazed at the telephone . |
| 13 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
| 14 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 15 | She no longer knew if she was happy or unhappy , cheerful or depressed , as she gazed at the infant lying in his pram , asleep in his cot , kicking on a rug before the fire . |
| 16 | Stunned , she gazed at the monitor . |
| 17 | Staring down through the window , she gazed at the icefield which was the frozen Baltic . |
| 18 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 19 | She stabbed at the recorder controls , though her eyes were blurred with tears and she could n't even see them . |
| 20 | " And you 're sure you have n't got a hankering for this Terry ? " she asked at the end . |
| 21 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 22 | She trembled at the memory . |
| 23 | She trembled at the passion in his voice , her whole being coming alive just for him . |
| 24 | He was too far away to hear , even if she shouted at the top of her voice . |
| 25 | She peered at the screen again . |
| 26 | Turning her back defiantly on him , she peered at the timetable , wondering despairingly if she 'd ever decipher it before she froze where she stood . |
| 27 | She peered at the tangle of brambles inside and shook with excitement : there was a perfect spider 's web today . |
| 28 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 29 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 30 | She dabbed at the wound , removing bits of grit , revealing a number of oozing scratches . |