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

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1 Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire .
2 Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end .
3 His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile .
4 I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’
5 But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all .
6 He opened his arms as she joined him at the mirror .
7 It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill .
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