Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy looked at her own face in the mirror . |
| 2 | The talk quickly became too technical for Sabine to follow , and Marie-Christine laughed at her bemused expression . |
| 3 | seems to have got most of his information about Sarah from the data held at her local Family Health Services Authority in Bristol , registered under the data protection act , it holds a large amount of information on patients within its area including the name and address of a patient 's doctor . |
| 4 | Ruth nibbled at her coloured pencil . |
| 5 | Katherine glanced at her small watch . |
| 6 | Karen looked at her own hands . |
| 7 | When Frances arrived at her new home , to be followed weeks later by her children and their nanny , she had every hope that the children would be relatively unaffected by her marital breakdown , especially as Sarah and Jane were away at boarding-school . |
| 8 | Sylvia looked at her miniature gold watch . |
| 9 | Penry looked at her violet cotton shirt and cream denims in surprise . |
| 10 | Penry glared at her wet head . |
| 11 | Professor St John Goth sat at her right elbow , dividing his attention with perfect diplomacy between Meryl and Anthea Darnell , who had the seat on the other side . |
| 12 | Meg sipped at her iced drink then looked up at him . |
| 13 | The huge clean moon stood at her right hand , lemon-yellow and patterned with shadow . |
| 14 | The Ralarth ‘ Wares grinned at her receding figure , but Murtach was sombre . |
| 15 | Sophie Grenfell looked at her youngest son in horror . |
| 16 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 17 | Claudia laughed at her own fears ; she was quite safe with Roman — from the sea , anyway . |
| 18 | Thérèse stared at her black patent shoes , those twin vices crushing her toes , telling her to take her feet away . |
| 19 | Claudia stared at her linked fingers and planned to get away as soon as they stopped . |
| 20 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow wept at her first Thanksgiving holiday without long-time lover Woody Allen , a friend revealed yesterday . |
| 21 | Maria looked at her own watch and then at him , the pleasure fading from her face . |
| 22 | In 1863 the 200-ton brig Comet sank at her Funchal anchorage , and in 1877 the schooner Patagonia went ashore near Ponta São Lourenço . |
| 23 | Christina looked at her pink-toned skin and said , ‘ You 'll have to be very careful . |
| 24 | Anne looked at her own face . |
| 25 | Evelyn , wearing a flowered summer dress belted at her slim waist and clinging tightly to her good figure , led the way into the low-beamed sitting room . |
| 26 | Morley winced as Kelly appeared at her front door , her shoulder strapped up , a graze down the side of her face and two blackened eyes . |
| 27 | But an odd sense of hurt washed over her at the scornful sound Guy made at her silent acquiescence . |
| 28 | Mrs Clamp nodded at her much-salted fish and sipped her tea . |
| 29 | Eleanor Thorne laughed at her young self . |
| 30 | Polly looked at her scribbled notes , then shrugged . |