Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd stood there , shivering with the cold , her already ragged clothes ripped further by the rough handling she 'd endured at the hands of the militia . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 8 | She 'd called at the library on her way home and borrowed some books on the Dordogne . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
| 12 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 13 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 14 | If she felt hurt at the realisation that his affectionate gestures had been no more than a front — well , it could only be because her ego was wounded . |
| 15 | She remembered again the scene she had recalled at the clinic . |
| 16 | Although she had lived at the farm since she was ten and was accepted as one of the family , she rarely took part in family discussions . |
| 17 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 18 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 19 | She had wept at the death of her father , but for her mother she felt no grief . |
| 20 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 21 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 22 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 23 | She started to wish that she had stayed at the table . |
| 24 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 25 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 26 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 27 | She had waited at the beech tree until the sky began to darken and the sudden , distant roar of aircraft engines told her that soon the bombers would be flying again . |
| 28 | She had shuddered at the thought of trying to explain her feelings to her parents and her sister , but then David 's heartless implication that Jennifer was n't worth her concern had shocked her beyond measure . |
| 29 | But in her relief Nenna forgot the quiet reasonable remarks which she had rehearsed at the bus stops , and in the buses , all the way to Stoke Newington . |
| 30 | They went to considerable lengths to remove all traces of her from the offices and rooms she had used at the Palace . |