Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] at [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazes at her , hating the way she twists her foot , hating the way she brushes awkwardly at her hair , hating the way her jaw is just too square and her eyebrows are just too thick . |
| 2 | She peered closely at her face ; there were a few lines about the mouth and eyes but at forty-seven that was only to be expected . |
| 3 | So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room . |
| 4 | ‘ She just missed one , so she dropped in at our local for some fags , and stayed to have a drink . ’ |
| 5 | She turned up at his flat not having bothered to go home and change , more than a little tired and jaded after an extremely hard working day . |
| 6 | The court was told how the 20-year-old French Air force deserter approached Miss Lamplugh as she arrived back at her home in Oxford . |
| 7 | In one picture in the centre pages of a copy of the magazine , a woman is smiling , relaxed ; she stares erotically at her viewer . |
| 8 | She smiles brightly at her companion and enquires : |
| 9 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 10 | She glanced up at her mother with a brief , strained smile , pushing back her chair quickly as she stood up . |
| 11 | Treacherous relief replaced amusement and was followed by a great surge of pure excitement as she glanced up at their apartment building . |
| 12 | Then she glanced up at his face . |
| 13 | When two-year-old Nicola saw the bricks , she glanced briefly at her mother , then threw each on in turn onto the floor . |
| 14 | She glanced briefly at his lapel badge . |
| 15 | She glanced repeatedly at her daughter in the long white linen gown which had been her own wedding dress . |
| 16 | She was addressing Ward , not me , and she glanced pointedly at her watch . |
| 17 | She glanced down at her watch . |
| 18 | After a second or two she glanced down at her notebook : although the detective had a retentive memory she sometimes scribbled the odd reminder . |
| 19 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
| 20 | Her hands kept busy as she glanced across at her daughter and said : ‘ I do n't suppose you 'll be coming to the Chapel , will you ? ’ |
| 21 | Surreptitiously now , she glanced across at his profile as Mrs Aitken piled baked Alaska on to each of their plates . |
| 22 | She glanced quickly at her watch . |
| 23 | She bobbed up at his side like a terrier , treading water . |
| 24 | As she returned downstairs at her home in Pym Street , South Bank , Middlesbrough , a table top which the babies ' dad , Brian , had placed behind the front room door fell over trapping her . |
| 25 | Swallowing convulsively , she rubbed vigorously at her face and hair with a large bath towel until her skin burned . |
| 26 | Emily 's throat was dry as she stared up at her cousin . |
| 27 | She stared down at her daughter in wonderment . |
| 28 | She stared down at her toe drawing patterns on the paving . |
| 29 | She stared down at her dress , blushing as she remembered how little she was wearing beneath it . |
| 30 | She stared down at her glass . |