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

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1	For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake .
2	She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold .
3	The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend .
4	Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her .
5	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 .
6	Unthinkingly she glanced at the clock on the bedside-table and tears stung her eyes .
7	Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ?
8	Mutinously she stared at the ground .
9	He saw how she bridled at the question , but saw also how the truth forbade her to say yes .
10	And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete .
11	Then she stared at the picture for a full minute .
12	Then she screamed at the children .
13	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 .
14	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 .
15	There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out .
16	Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass .
17	Idiotically she stared at the receiver in her hands and then dropped it back on its hook .

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