Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she felt at a loss . |
| 2 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 3 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 4 | The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend . |
| 5 | Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her . |
| 6 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 7 | Unthinkingly she glanced at the clock on the bedside-table and tears stung her eyes . |
| 8 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
| 9 | Mutinously she stared at the ground . |
| 10 | He saw how she bridled at the question , but saw also how the truth forbade her to say yes . |
| 11 | And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete . |
| 12 | Then she stared at the picture for a full minute . |
| 13 | Then she screamed at the children . |
| 14 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 15 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 16 | He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes . |
| 17 | There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out . |
| 18 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 19 | Idiotically she stared at the receiver in her hands and then dropped it back on its hook . |