Example sentences of "she have [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 2 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 3 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 4 | Edgy as a cat on broken glass , she had gone at him like a power-saw , but had failed to silence him entirely . |
| 5 | He could not recall when last she had laughed at him without ridicule . |
| 6 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 7 | In the dark she had hammered at him as if she were driving a spike . |
| 8 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 9 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 10 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |