Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lacuna appeared distracted , her face frozen in surprise as she gazed unseeingly at the ceaseless struggle . |
| 2 | She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore . |
| 3 | She gazed accusingly at the sheepless landscape . |
| 4 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 5 | She peered closely at the surrounding mass of faces , comprising ten of the cleaner or nicer-looking boys from the boarding section , who were whispering and fooling among themselves and taking little notice of her . |
| 6 | She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin 's cheek , a twin to one on mine . |
| 7 | The air did n't feel sharply cold enough for snow , and Clare hoped it would n't rain ; she peered upward at the dull , grey sky . |
| 8 | She dabbed ineffectually at the fine material . |
| 9 | With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass . |
| 10 | In a mad impulsive movement , which Molly later insisted was self defence , she jabbed desperately at the oncoming fish . |
| 11 | She sniffed enquiringly at the empty hay rack and looked round at her owner . |
| 12 | Chrissie came into the lounge , looking slight and fragile in her housecoat ; she glanced nervously at the two CI5 men . |
| 13 | She glanced meaningfully at the linked hands of Juliet and David . |
| 14 | As the hospital grew bigger and nearer , she glanced again at the little boy and saw with horror that he was tiny . |
| 15 | She was tired out now , her eyes ached from lack of sleep and jet-lag , and she glanced longingly at the king-sized bed with its lace-trimmed peach silk sheets . |
| 16 | She glanced across at the dog-eared book of maps that lay on the passenger-seat beside her . |
| 17 | As she said it , she stared fixedly at the shredded corner of her notepad and wished vainly , but with all her heart , that it were true . |
| 18 | Shocked , she stared disbelievingly at the receding back of Doctor Anderson , and wondered what had been contained in the message that had made a member of the staff drop everything in such an unprofessional way . |
| 19 | She stared hard at the blue flowers . |
| 20 | She stared hard at the black curly hairs on the neck of the man she 'd married nine years before . |
| 21 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |
| 22 | She looked carefully at the grey branches . |
| 23 | Her hands , like claws , clutched her cup and she looked sorrowfully at the lukewarm tea . |
| 24 | She looked again at the rear-view mirror and saw that the Audi was turning into a side road , allowing her to go . |
| 25 | She looked again at the small girl with bright eyes standing beside her desk so sensible and solemn . |
| 26 | She looked again at the tiny hut . |
| 27 | She looked steadily at the other two and was very firm . |
| 28 | She looked across at the half-hidden walking stick again . |
| 29 | Then she looked across at the silent lawyer . |
| 30 | Mesmerised by the heat rising from the hard earth and stones of the road , she looked numbly at the blue and white chipped plates . |