Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 2 | Sybille was an exception , but Laura liked to believe that she had persuaded her at least to cut down . |
| 3 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 4 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 5 | Did you notice she says she did n't have owt and she 'd left it at home ? |
| 6 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 7 | A house in France was a luxury she could n't afford , but she needed to visit it at least once — to make a reasoned decision about the future of her unexpected inheritance . |
| 8 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 9 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 10 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 11 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 13 | Half a dozen cutting remarks trembled on the tip of her tongue , but though she longed to hurl them at him , and watch him shrivel , she knew she could n't . |
| 14 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 15 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |