Example sentences of "she [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 2 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 3 | She shouted at those waiting about how she had been unjustly treated . |
| 4 | My mother sighed as she peered at those crowding white sails and topgallants : ‘ If only he were here to see that ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Chignell tells me that you want no thanks , ’ he resumed , and she caught at that eagerly . |
| 6 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 7 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 8 | She seemed at any rate , to satisfy lodgers . |
| 9 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |
| 10 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 11 | She marvelled at this phenomenon , but was humbly grateful that her mind worked in this way . |
| 12 | Her interest in cosmetics , like that of her friend Alix Bowen , was minimal , but , like Alix Bowen , she decided that it was after all a festive occasion , and she began at this late moment to apply a little mascara . |
| 13 | I do not think she benefited at all financially — if she did it was a very small amount — and would n't have been able to keep any of the furniture had it not been for the kindness of Aunt Mary . |
| 14 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
| 15 | She laughed at that expression which she had n't heard in years . |
| 16 | So she laughed at that , see . |
| 17 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 18 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 19 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 20 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 22 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 23 | She clutched at these landmarks as her heart soared like a kite , time day and place an anchor to the swooping light of love . |
| 24 | It was odd , she thought , how if one was alone , one leant to things , inanimate things ; trees , streams , flowers ; felt they expressed one ; felt they became one ; felt they knew one , in a sense were one ; felt an irrational tenderness thus ( she looked at that long steady light ) as for oneself' . |
| 25 | She looked at that lean , dark face , so like Michele 's , and wondered what had disturbed her . |
| 26 | She looked at all sorts of alternative medicine and found that homeopathy was very effective for Angela 's condition of breathlessness and collapse . |
| 27 | She looked at each of the women in turn . |
| 28 | She looked at each side of the gate , but a thick hedge divided the wood from the field . |
| 29 | She looked at each of them , her eyes steady and brilliant , the wind scurrying across the forest now , nearly with them . |
| 30 | She looked at this moment more terrifying than ever before . |