Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her fingers plucked at the air until Thérèse reached out and held them in her own .
2 The memory of the towers ' electro-sticks back at Mars-U made her fingers fumble at the keys .
3 Her eyes widened at the sight of him .
4 He kept thinking of her pirouetting , her small face impish , then her eyes filling at the memory of her lost doll .
5 Her eyes rounded at the sight of so much flesh , although she stepped quite boldly into the room .
6 Her eyes deepen at the memory .
7 For a moment her eyes blurred at the memories of happy days , days of innocence .
8 She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air .
9 Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained .
10 She turned her head slightly , opening her eyes to gaze at the firm , tanned hands clasping the wheel of the super-charged sports car that Ross had hired earlier that afternoon .
11 Isabel picked her way carefully over the rough bank , the cramped muscles in her legs protesting at the exercise , and took the reins .
12 Sweetheart was sitting in her favourite chair with her legs crossed at the knee and a magazine spread out on the table before her .
13 He was aware only of Eloise sitting next to him , with her legs crossed at the knee , one delicate ankle encircled by a thin gold chain .
14 But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin .
15 The billows of cloud were gleaming as they moved through the rain , and briefly her senses lifted at the sight , but there was no instant consolation there — only , inside a crowded mind , a sudden increase of space .
16 Her hands slid up , her fingers running along the strong line of his throat to caress the faintly rough skin along his jaw , her fingertips burning at the contact .
17 She hated the way her skirts strained at the seams , the way her thighs lolled on her chair , rubbed together when she walked .
18 Her oerlikons blazed at the batteries on the harbour wall as Bill Copland calmly marshalled the assault parties .
19 ‘ Fucking landlord , ’ she was saying , her hands grasping at the bulb .
20 The Queen remains a remote figure , glacial and impenetrable except when caught by the press cameras watching one of her horses winning at the races .
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