Example sentences of "she [verb] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She quivered at the slide of his hand around the sensitive skin behind her ears , and tried to shake his hands off her hair without success . |
| 2 | Now her head dipped as she pried at the fissure of a half-split nail . |
| 3 | She demonstrated her apparent unawareness of her position in the speech she made at the opening of the church hall in Kensington to which the grocer John Barker , from whom she bought provisions , had contributed . |
| 4 | She lived at the top of Tennyson Tower — ‘ It was that or Maid Marian , ’ she remarked , as they swung its glass door , her voice distantly scornful . |
| 5 | The smears on the television had gone so she gazed at the reflection of the sunlight on the blank screen instead . |
| 6 | She had n't actually intended to go in , but the window display caught her eye and , without thinking , she wandered in , to look , certainly not to buy , until she realised with a pang of guilt , as she gazed at the racks of colourful fashions , that everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date . |
| 7 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 8 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 9 | He was too far away to hear , even if she shouted at the top of her voice . |
| 10 | Her sensitivity at all times to what will run in Cabinet is genuine , even though she always lets colleagues know what she wants at the outset of any discussion . |
| 11 | She peered at the tangle of brambles inside and shook with excitement : there was a perfect spider 's web today . |
| 12 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 13 | She moved at the end of |
| 14 | She looks at the bits of paper on the floor , but she do n't say nothing . |
| 15 | The tears are thought to be caused by her pain as she looks at the sins of the world , and are meant to inspire the watchers to repent and to set an example to others . |
| 16 | Mary Douglas has dealt with this extensively in Purity and Danger , where , amongst other sources , she looks at the Book of Leviticus in these terms . |
| 17 | She snatched at the strings of her apron , fingers fretting at the lumpy knot in the small of her back . |
| 18 | She stopped at the edge of a muddied pool lapping all the way across a back lane then leapt across to the other side . |
| 19 | She stopped at the bottom of the steps and listened . |
| 20 | She stopped at the sound of a car in the courtyard . |
| 21 | Sh she shouts at the top of her voice at 'im . |
| 22 | She winced at the size of his tailor 's bill and questioned him going to Harley Street to replace two teeth knocked out in the Gold Cup when there was a perfectly good National Health dentist down the road . |
| 23 | it 's an old , old house but she says at the top of the house |
| 24 | Zerrer like her assistant Margo , who is busying herself about the Centre supervising clients as they get into their goggles , turns out to be , unsurprisingly , a new age devotee , though she cringes at the mention of the words . |
| 25 | She heard his low , troubled call , ‘ Clare ’ , as she turned at the top of the stairs . |
| 26 | She turned at the sound of footsteps , expecting to see Martin , and was surprised when James Morris strode unannounced into her living-room . |
| 27 | She shrieked at the sting of the blows , which left a red mark down one side of her face . |
| 28 | It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches . |
| 29 | When she arrived at the edge of the covert , she made her way cautiously along its downhill fringes . |
| 30 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |