Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 2 | She supposed she must have risen at some point to light a candle on the mantlepiece . |
| 3 | NHS dietician Helen Marshall did n't see why she should have to retire at 60 . |
| 4 | She should have started at seven — and found the body almost immediately . ’ |
| 5 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 6 | But , before she could begin to feel at all mortified , ‘ Did I tell you how glad I am , heart and soul , that you came ? ’ |
| 7 | She had n't really imagined she 'd have to talk at all , she realised — had hoped and assumed he 'd simply sweep her into his arms . |
| 8 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 9 | If Cassie had not been so consumed by rage , she would have laughed at this last and patently childish remark . |
| 10 | If the whole business had not been impossibly difficult , she wondered if she would have bothered at all . |