Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] 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 | She peered intently at the tears in the garments . |
3 | Wiping breath from the window , she peered out at the landmarks , all so distant from the place where she longed to be . |
4 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
5 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
6 | She glanced round at the cats to see how much food would be needed . |
7 | She glanced up at the stars to avoid looking at his face . |
8 | She glanced back at the marquees , but there was no sign of Richard . |
9 | She glanced out at the humans . |
10 | She stared dully at the logs crackling in the hearth . |
11 | It was dark when they got outside , and , walking silently beside him , she stared up at the stars , and gave an unconscious little sigh . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | As she stared unseeingly at the advertisements in yet another newsagent 's window Folly felt the old anger come surging back . |
14 | For a moment she stared down at the stains and the roses , and then she walked away . |
15 | She stared down at the papers in her hand , not wanting to look at him . |
16 | Opening her briefcase , she stared down at the contents . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | She stared blankly at the adverts . |
19 | She stared blankly at the boys for a couple of seconds , then shook her head and tried to ignore the fears that crowded her . |
20 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
21 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | She looked around at the fields . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
26 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
27 | Everything she had thought had been a lie and she looked carefully at the things she now possessed with new eyes . |
28 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
29 | She looked slyly at the children and laughed when they laughed . |
30 | She looked pointedly at the stairs behind him , and he gave her a thorough scrutiny , as though trying to work out exactly what was on her mind . |