Example sentences of "she [verb] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head , she realised was at an odd angle . |
| 2 | Elizabeth is a 27-year old midwife who considers she has been at least a stone ( 14lb/6.5kg ) overweight since she was aged 16 . |
| 3 | She has been at Orion since October , and has been responsible for , among other things , the marketing of Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy . |
| 4 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 5 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 6 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 7 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 8 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 9 | ‘ She 'd been at work , she said , when she went into labour . |
| 10 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 11 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 12 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 13 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 14 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 15 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 16 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 17 | One lunchtime when she had been at the House of Mattli for a few months Paula went there for her usual coffee and the cottage cheese salad that was her staple diet now that it was so important that she did not add a single half-inch to her wand-slim figure . |
| 18 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 19 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 20 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 21 | She had been at her worst between Spanish Fork and Dead Rat , when Elder Seth and the voices of the dead were arguing inside her head . |
| 22 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 23 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 24 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 25 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 26 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 27 | Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning . |
| 28 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 29 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 30 | She once confessed how unhappy she had been at home . |