Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |
| 2 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 3 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 4 | And she looked at me like that . |
| 5 | When he came back his face was grim , and she looked at him with surprise . |
| 6 | ‘ Then what 's wrong ? ’ he said and she looked at him in surprise . |
| 7 | ‘ Later , my love , ’ Roman said briskly and she looked at him in surprise . |
| 8 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 9 | The words burst from him in an angry rush , and she glanced at him in surprise . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 11 | He was pleased to see her looking less pale than when he had last seen her , and she grinned at him with something of her old cheerfulness . |
| 12 | She seemed vaguely familiar to Juliet , and she stared at her for a moment , trying to place where she might have seen her . |
| 13 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 14 | His cold black eyes met Meredith 's , and she stared at him in dismay . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , ’ he admitted softly and she stared at him in astonished disbelief . |
| 16 | Maggie 's head shot up and she stared at him in astonishment . |
| 17 | Colour rose in her face and she stared at him in horror . |
| 18 | Her lips clamped together and she stared at him in horror , unable to believe she 'd really asked him such a question . |
| 19 | I played it to my mother and she stared at me in total disbelief . |
| 20 | The phone went dead and she stared at it as if it had bitten her . |
| 21 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 22 | I handed her the drink and she smiled at me with all her splendid teeth and said , " Thank you . |
| 23 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 24 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 25 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 26 | And while she stared at him in some astonishment , ‘ I would never harm you , ’ he added . |
| 27 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 28 | When she looked at him through eyes swimming with tears his face was taut with feeling , his eyes filled with burning tenderness . |
| 29 | Nothing compared to what her heart did when she looked at him like that . |
| 30 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |