Example sentences of "[adj] she [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This she displayed at her belt , though she had neither the intention nor the resource to use it . |
| 2 | On one occasion she threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace while on another she slashed at her wrists with a razor blade . |
| 3 | As she pulled her head free she looked at his face fearfully . |
| 4 | 2 She stays at the market for 1 hour , then starts to drive home at 40km per hour . |
| 5 | Then she snatched a cigarette from a box , her hand shaking so much she laughed at the difficulty she had in lighting it . |
| 6 | Theda was busy with her hair , but at that she glanced at him and saw the hurt in his eyes . |
| 7 | In 1891 she taught at a finishing school in Hanover for six months and , after her return to England , at a school in Finsbury Park . |
| 8 | But she says the shopkeepers in Dromore are very good and communication is helped by the lip-reading she learned at Mary Mitchell 's class . |
| 9 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 10 | As he intended to behave extraordinarily well , she would grow to like and respect him ( he was n't entirely sure she did at the moment ) . |
| 11 | That sounded expensive , and limited spending money was really all she had at her disposal , but could she seriously spend even one night under the same roof as that … that arrogant … libertine ? |
| 12 | She 's well known in diplomatic circles , and she 's quite right in all she said at dinner , and although I contradicted her , there are strange rumours of war going around . |
| 13 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 14 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 15 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |
| 16 | During World War I she worked at the Admiralty on various projects of national importance , including the large-scale production of acetone from starch by fermentation . |
| 17 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 18 | First she called at the flat in the rue du Bateau and made a telephone call . |
| 19 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 20 | From 1897 till 1907 she taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 21 | A wedge approach to three feet produced an eagle three at the ninth , while her solitary lapse was the four she made at the short 16th . |
| 22 | From 1861 to 1863 she studied at the Kensington School of Art . |
| 23 | ‘ Every time Subotica looked to have her beaten she came at him again and it was only in the last two strides that she lost . |
| 24 | Her intelligence was working overtime when next she looked at her employer . |
| 25 | After the deaths of her father in 1789 and her mother in 1793 she remained at Twickenham , living with her scholarly brother Henry and a friend , Margaret Mitchell . |