Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy …
2 She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house .
3 The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them .
4 The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car .
5 But the woman 's insults rankled , as did her earlier insolence — for her contemptuous glance had raked Theda 's person when she had dared to ask at the Feathers for a room for the night .
6 She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod .
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