Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a week away she got washing at the moment . |
| 2 | She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened . |
| 3 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 4 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 5 | This is all she has to do at the beginning of the week . |
| 6 | She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face . |
| 7 | The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay . |
| 8 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 9 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 10 | Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft . |
| 11 | She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic . |
| 12 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 13 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 14 | She 'd called at the library on her way home and borrowed some books on the Dordogne . |
| 15 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 16 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |
| 17 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 18 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 19 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 20 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 21 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 22 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 23 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 24 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 25 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 26 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
| 27 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 28 | Nor did she manage to swoon at the sound of Elvis 's voice or at the mention of Big Bopper . |
| 29 | She combines working at the branch with being a school governor and a member of the North Notts Training and Enterprise Council [ TEC ] Education Business Partnership . |
| 30 | Pouring out the coffee with a shaking hand , adding milk and sugar , she went to sit at the table . |