Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 2 | And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing . |
| 3 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
| 4 | She always looked at every farthing twice before parting with it . |
| 5 | She hardly glanced at the plate and did n't ask about the spinach . |
| 6 | It was like the pain from an old wound , so familiar that she never noticed it until she deliberately picked at the scar . |
| 7 | She never tired of seeing a sunset or a flock of geese , and even in her nineties she still marvelled at the beauty of the sea or the quality of light in Dumfriesshire . |
| 8 | Educated in Coventry and at Durham University , she later studied at the Unversity of Iowa , and became active in politics as a researcher for Mr Tony Benn and Mr Alvin Tofler . |
| 9 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 10 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 11 | There she met Molly Braithwaite , who was so enthusiastic that after finishing her degree she also trained at the Medau School and on her return joined Peggy in taking classes . |
| 12 | She also helped at a Brownie Pack and was a volunteer mini-bus driver for children with special needs . |
| 13 | She now looked at the child , saying , ‘ Was that your ma ? ’ |
| 14 | She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow . |
| 15 | By contrast she was ‘ positioned ’ by her partner as being incapable of doing much of what she regularly performed at the centre . |
| 16 | She then trained at the Medau School under the talented Irmela Doebner and some months after qualifying decided to come to England , and with the help of a postgraduate at Cambridge arranged to give a display at Newham College . |
| 17 | When Carco 's concierge came to clean his room the next day , she almost fainted at the sight of the nude picture hanging over his bed . |
| 18 | She almost fainted at the price . |
| 19 | Sometimes , she almost screamed at the time it took . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ You 're a natural , ’ and she almost smiled at the compliment . |
| 21 | Then , remembering , she almost gagged at the feel of his slimed cock under her hand , and the raw acid smell of his seed . |
| 22 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
| 23 | She never looked at the child unless she had to . |
| 24 | It made her worried and she actually called at the house on the day Pamela died . |
| 25 | She therefore decided at the start of the second year to take in a partner who would put in an additional £5,000 into the business and would be able to do some of the selling and other tasks after Susan had trained him . |