Example sentences of "[verb] at her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She beat at her face , her bosom , her stomach , her hips , with hands which looked as if they were dripping with damson jam . |
| 2 | A greater fool than you could ever know , Shae thought dully , pain throbbing like a drum beat at her temples . |
| 3 | She beat at her brother 's head , causing him to screech with pain . |
| 4 | Dazzling lights knifed at her vision from the docking bay . |
| 5 | ‘ But I think he was quite rational last night , ’ said Breeze , marvelling at her own coolness . |
| 6 | Volkov held her close ; marvelling at her selfless courage even as he reproached her . |
| 7 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 8 | How she wishes she were back in her snug little house , tapping away on her word-processor , dissecting the lexemes of some classic Victorian novel , delicately detaching the hermeneutic code from the proairetic code , the cultural from the symbolic , surrounded by books and files , the gas fire hissing and a cup of coffee steaming at her elbow . |
| 9 | Mrs Jones was attacked at her home in the village of Hodson near Swindon all for the sake of sixty pounds . |
| 10 | She 's so scared , she 'd jump at her own shadow . ’ |
| 11 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |
| 12 | Neighbouring women rushed in to comfort her and mourn with her ; and Harry , fuming at her ingratitude and smarting from yet another snub , stamped back to this cottage , where he found Ann weeping bitterly , with Tristram at her breast . |
| 13 | The boys burst out laughing at her remark , then Yanto controlled himself and went on . |
| 14 | A worn-looking hooker is getting her face slashed in the local whorehouse for laughing at her cowboy customer 's ‘ teensy little pecker ’ . |
| 15 | Like laughing at her po-faced pronouncements on the ‘ artistry ’ of throw-away tunes such as , well , you name ‘ em , she 's got ‘ em . |
| 16 | It was like a smiling , mocking face , laughing at her useless attempts to raise her own passion . |
| 17 | Her mind vacillated between laughing at her fears and suspecting a terrible mystery . |
| 18 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 19 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 20 | ‘ Relax , ’ he said , laughing at her expression . |
| 21 | But later that morning Luke was in one of the relaxed moods she was beginning to like so much , helping her move some recently purchased pots and tubs of plants about her balcony , asking questions , laughing at her description of her mongrel ancestry — Irish , Scottish , English , Portuguese and Italian , and intrigued to learn that she spoke Portuguese . |
| 22 | He was laughing at her inexperience , making her feel gauche and defenceless . |
| 23 | In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband . |
| 24 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 25 | Looking down , she saw him beside a bush , only half concealed , laughing at her face . |
| 26 | Something walking across her grave … or the forces in heaven laughing at her vain attempts to re-write her future ? |
| 27 | It 's claimed the boy carried out the first attack behind a row of shops , holding his victim to stop her struggling , and laughing at her cries for help . |
| 28 | After the questions , the woman lodger went away and they took off Dot 's clothes and touched and prodded at her neck , her ears and her throat . |
| 29 | And he poked and prodded at her vagina and her belly . |
| 30 | She prodded at her pâté de foie aux truffes de Perigord , rearranged the maigrets de canard on her plate in the hope that she might be able to hide the tender slices of duck under her untouched vegetables , and , when the sweet trolley arrived , with its groaning layers of gâteaux and desserts , she mumbled an excuse to her neighbour and slipped away . |