Example sentences of "she [vb past] at the " 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 | Without her I would n't be here , ’ she admitted at the time . |
| 3 | She quivered at the slide of his hand around the sensitive skin behind her ears , and tried to shake his hands off her hair without success . |
| 4 | Now her head dipped as she pried at the fissure of a half-split nail . |
| 5 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The chasm between her and the other writers is most apparent in comments she made at the ‘ Nouveau roman : hier , aujourd'hui ’ conference at Cerisy in 1972 , in which she clung resolutely to her conviction of the existence of a pre-verbal , extra-textual reality in mental life . |
| 8 | She demonstrated her apparent unawareness of her position in the speech she made at the opening of the church hall in Kensington to which the grocer John Barker , from whom she bought provisions , had contributed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She lived at the top of Tennyson Tower — ‘ It was that or Maid Marian , ’ she remarked , as they swung its glass door , her voice distantly scornful . |
| 11 | The smears on the television had gone so she gazed at the reflection of the sunlight on the blank screen instead . |
| 12 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Staring down through the window , she gazed at the icefield which was the frozen Baltic . |
| 15 | She gazed at the girl 's wild-rose cheeks and half-closed eyes . |
| 16 | She no longer knew if she was happy or unhappy , cheerful or depressed , as she gazed at the infant lying in his pram , asleep in his cot , kicking on a rug before the fire . |
| 17 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 18 | She gazed at the small , gaudily dressed figure ; the clown , the madman , the genius . |
| 19 | Her deeply lined face was creased into a smile as she gazed at the tiny ear in her hand . |
| 20 | She gazed at the telephone . |
| 21 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
| 24 | As she gazed at the floor , unable to look at him , there flashed across her mind that image of two figures walking together along the path from the beach . |
| 25 | As she listened to the playback she gazed at the naked corpse . |
| 26 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 27 | She gazed at the moonlit/sunlit clouds below her — desert , lakes , river-ribbons , an ocean . |
| 28 | She gazed at the pages as Carolyn read , as if she could see the events unfolding there . |
| 29 | She gazed at the ceiling , feeling her heartbeat and breathing slowing to normal , her body quietening . |
| 30 | She had n't actually intended to go in , but the window display caught her eye and , without thinking , she wandered in , to look , certainly not to buy , until she realised with a pang of guilt , as she gazed at the racks of colourful fashions , that everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date . |