Example sentences of "that she [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality .
2 Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment .
3 And it was n't until she 'd finished doing the washing-up , and the kitchen had been cleaned to her satisfaction , that she began at last to simmer down .
4 And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up .
5 And all that time , Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times , when she was alone and longing to ‘ break down ’ , to clutch her breast with a fierce answering force to keep the black horror from spurting forth .
6 She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report .
7 He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category .
8 Julia made no effort to talk then , because her throat hurt so much , but later , over dinner , she felt that she had at least to try .
9 Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder .
10 The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ?
11 If she 's not in the district that will be difficult but if it is possible if she 's in the district we order that she attends at transfer sessions the outgoing licensee .
12 Now another thing as I said that she looked at in terms of clusters was the centre line .
13 How do you know that she swims at night ? ’
14 Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving .
15 Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn .
16 But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea .
17 But he knew that she stared at him , and felt rather than saw the hostility there .
18 She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes .
19 McEnroe insisted that she stay at home and look after Kevin , six , Sean , five , and one-year-old Emily .
20 It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him .
21 Shortly before his death in the next year , Henry III granted to his queen , Eleanor , the custody ‘ of the castle and forest of Windsor and the seven hundreds , and the towns of Old Windsor , Bray and Kempton , during pleasure ’ , provided that she accounted at the Exchequer as Nicholas de Yattendon , the previous constable and warden , had done .
22 I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators .
23 ‘ One of the couples is dividing the babysitting so that she stays at home and he goes out to do the babysitting .
24 After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing .
25 It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be .
26 Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random .
27 Julia was so far out of her usual self-control that she whimpered at the prick of the needle .
28 He remembered how , as a child , by dozens of small acts of perversity , he had brought his mother 's wrath down upon himself , so that she did at least notice his existence .
29 The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly .
30 she just like thought he was , being a carpenter or something , and this brother , erm , her brother did n't know that she sung at all , so it all turns out to be a big surprise .
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