Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She seated herself at the desk . |
| 4 | She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room . |
| 5 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 6 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 7 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 10 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 11 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 12 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 13 | ( 26 ) Dare she ring him at the office ? |
| 14 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 15 | He opened his arms as she joined him at the mirror . |
| 16 | Actually , she telephoned me at the Lab just before two . |
| 17 | She killed herself at the theatre last night . ’ |
| 18 | She watched her at the mirror . |
| 19 | But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all . |
| 20 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 21 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 22 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 23 | Was she carrying anything at the time ? |
| 24 | Although booted and plastered with mud and out of temper with herself and with him , she deposited him at the drawbridge of Sigouri in just over an hour . |
| 25 | She said anyone at the party could confirm her story . |
| 26 | She spotted them at the door and waved them over . |
| 27 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 28 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 29 | She left them at the studio when she called and I have n't her name or address . |
| 30 | When she was finished there she hurried back to the kitchen where she washed herself at the sink . |