Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened . |
2 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
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 | 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 . |
5 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
6 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
7 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
11 | Pouring out the coffee with a shaking hand , adding milk and sugar , she went to sit at the table . |
12 | Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him . |
13 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
14 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
15 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
16 | She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau . |
17 | She longed to laugh at the stupidity of the driver , not knowing . |
18 | She wanted to weep at the pity of it all , then she opened them again to stare at him . |
19 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
20 | She wanted to laugh at the sight of his face , he looked so funny . |
21 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |