Example sentences of "she [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 2 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |
| 3 | A wedge approach to three feet produced an eagle three at the ninth , while her solitary lapse was the four she made at the short 16th . |
| 4 | Her deeply lined face was creased into a smile as she gazed at the tiny ear in her hand . |
| 5 | She gazed at the moonlit/sunlit clouds below her — desert , lakes , river-ribbons , an ocean . |
| 6 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 7 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 8 | She gazed at the small , gaudily dressed figure ; the clown , the madman , the genius . |
| 9 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 10 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 11 | Her brows puckered in a frown , she gazed at the deserted coach , and she did n't realise that Roman had left her until he returned , a furious expression on his face . |
| 12 | As she listened to the playback she gazed at the naked corpse . |
| 13 | She gazed at the vivid scarlet variety . |
| 14 | She skittled at the last . |
| 15 | She trembled at the razor-sharp sleet of misery : losing Lucy . |
| 16 | She trembled at the strange new erotic sensation of hot and cold flushes within her loins . |
| 17 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
| 18 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 19 | She peered at the smaller typewriter 's message : |
| 20 | Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage . |
| 21 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 22 | The voice startled her but when she looked round she winced at the stale smell of alcohol on the man 's breath . |
| 23 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 24 | She bridled at the apparent underlying threat in his words . |
| 25 | She studied at the Royal Academy in London and the Juilliard School in New York . |
| 26 | She came at the same time ; then , as he lay there , quivering in his spent heat , she rolled off him and on to her knees . |
| 27 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 28 | Feeling suddenly hungry , she nibbled at the buttered toast . |
| 29 | A governor 's daughter , travelling to India , found the first-class passengers stuffy and took a fancy to a handsome second-class steward with whom she danced at the fancy dress ball . |
| 30 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |