Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 2 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
| 3 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 4 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 5 | She glanced round at the cats to see how much food would be needed . |
| 6 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
| 7 | She glanced back at the marquees , but there was no sign of Richard . |
| 8 | She glanced out at the humans . |
| 9 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
| 10 | She felt no surprise at hearing Luke 's voice — indeed , she felt nothing but a cold numbness as she stared round at the ruins of her home . |
| 11 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
| 12 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
| 13 | Opening her briefcase , she stared down at the contents . |
| 14 | Opening the lid , she stared down at the emeralds glinting up at her like cat 's eyes , her mother 's emeralds and her grandmother 's and many generations of Grenfell women before her . |
| 15 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
| 16 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
| 17 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
| 18 | She looked around at the fields . |
| 19 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 20 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 21 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
| 22 | She looked down at the roses . |
| 23 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 24 | She looked back at the stepping-stones , over which the river was rushing noisily . |
| 25 | She looked back at the waves and pulled hard and carefully with her oars . |
| 26 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |