Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she came to the kitchen when summoned to help , and she tried not to grumble at the repetitive nature of the work and the talk . |
| 2 | She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back . |
| 3 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 4 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 5 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 6 | She used ter sing at the Star in Abbey Street , ’ Broomhead informed him . |
| 7 | Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare . |
| 8 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 9 | Still looking doubtful , she went off to fill the order , and when Ellie had eaten it all , down to the very last scrap , and had two cups of coffee , she came back to stand at the table , full of admiration and amazement . |
| 10 | She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you . |
| 11 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 12 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 13 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 14 | She did n't know at the time about the pictures that had been taken or about some of those activities in which he did take part . |
| 15 | She did n't look at the portrait often . |
| 16 | What on earth do you think she meant by the incident she did n't like at the weekend ? " |
| 17 | Blood matted the blond hair , and Lindsey took a deep breath as she leaned closer to peer at the wound . |
| 18 | Alcohol made these symptoms worse , she noticed , so she gave up drinking at the age of 20 . |
| 19 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 20 | Till this moment she had n't looked at the river . |
| 21 | Why , Alyssia thought , she had not jumped at the idea the moment it was suggested was anybody 's guess . |
| 22 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 23 | She had desperately scrambled at the shiny sides of the toilet-bowl as she slid into the water but to no avail . |
| 24 | And , further wishing to appear brisk and fresh , as if she had simply alighted at the manor gates from her carriage , she allowed herself plenty of time for the familiar trudge down the cobbled hill of St Jude 's Street to the flat plain of St Jude 's Square and Market Square in the valley below and then up the other side , past the brewery and the iron foundry , through the maze of brewers ' and iron-workers ' cottages , to the manor , the skyline beyond it dominated by the squat , square bulk and the huge , foully belching chimney-stack of Dallam 's mill . |
| 25 | She ran up to listen at the bedroom door again . |
| 26 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 27 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 28 | Right and that 's what she does n't know at the moment . |
| 29 | She stood there yabbing at the end of the counter , when are you coming out ! |
| 30 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |