Example sentences of "her [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't stop her lashing out at him with her teeth and back legs as he unsaddled her , but he felt he was making progress and , the next day , stick and balling her he found she was a natural . |
| 2 | says , you know , told her to come over at night you know |
| 3 | It was open to her to come back at any time . |
| 4 | Well if she 's home if she 's home I 'll get her to pop in at two , if she 's not home I 'll get her to come in at quarter past five . |
| 5 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 6 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 7 | When she opened her eyes again Philippa was kneeling in front of her looking up at her . |
| 8 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 9 | He had caught her looking sharply at him when she thought he would n't notice . |
| 10 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 11 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 12 | I must say I was not totally happy about her going on at Yeo Davis , with me in the government . |
| 13 | To stop her going on at me I said , " No , I 'm not . " |
| 14 | Tsu Ma laughed ; a soft , generous laughter that made her look up at him again and meet his eyes . |
| 15 | Something in his voice made her look up at him . |
| 16 | He was reluctant to begin and his hesitancy made her look questioningly at him . |
| 17 | This caused her to look closely at him . |
| 18 | She was tall for a woman , but he topped her by several inches , forcing her to look up at him . |
| 19 | His fingers traced a line from her groin up to her chin , forcing her to look back at him . |
| 20 | Instead , another regrettable aspect of her personality impelled her to smile specially at this man . |
| 21 | You spoke of her riding straight at difficult obstacles . ’ |
| 22 | He had come straight from receiving a shock like that to find another woman apparently destroying another marriage , probably because he was half expecting her to do so at that stage , viewing all women with newly disillusioned and suspicious eyes . |
| 23 | Well if she 's home if she 's home I 'll get her to pop in at two , if she 's not home I 'll get her to come in at quarter past five . |
| 24 | It made her feel more at home , already , to steal something from the larder . |
| 25 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 26 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 27 | When I sat down I told Janina 's mother , expecting her to tutut approvingly at my astute virtue . |
| 28 | Sheer determination to prove she could do the job her father had n't believed her capable of kept her plugging away at it . |
| 29 | Her words were lost in the sound of grinding gears , and the car leaped away from the sidewalk , knocking Mrs Frizzell 's hat askew and leaving her mouthing furiously at nobody . |
| 30 | Dorris Thompson , aged 84 , of Park Square West , Jaywick , was described to Essex Coroner Dr Malcolm Weir as a ‘ thin frail elderly lady ’ who always turned her heating off at night . |