Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before .
2 Instinctively she looked up at the sky .
3 Then instinctively she looked back at the building , and upwards towards Luke 's room .
4 She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns .
5 Ever since she 'd seen a real arachnid close up she shuddered just at the word .
6 Moodily she looked down at the ground .
7 Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early .
8 Then she looked across at the silent lawyer .
9 And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’
10 Then she settled down at the dining-room table with her book purchases , which she had picked at random from the shelves of Tollemarche 's only book store and from the racks of one of the cigar stores .
11 She told police she threw the infant into the fast-flowing waters from the A61 road bridge at Killinghall before travelling to Thirsk , where she stayed overnight at the Busby Stoop Inn .
12 Outside again she glanced up at the sky which was a pale shade of blue .
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