Example sentences of "[prep] she [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's sad because I shall cherish the memory of her gazing at the palms of her newly extended hands and saying ‘ Fancy . |
| 2 | After Mona agreed with Mr Carman that she shunned publicity , he produced glamorous photos of her taken at her mother 's mansion in Hampstead , North London . |
| 3 | Her outburst had at least got some of her anger off her chest , but she was still a prisoner , and when fresh falls of snow were forecast she felt near the end of her tether at the prospect of being trapped any longer at Rocamar . |
| 4 | The old newspapers that had been placed underneath her crackled at the movement . |
| 5 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 6 | The big Kulak that goes everywhere with her looked at her , then at me , then gives me a bit o' paper . ’ |
| 7 | But something in her rebelled at Luke 's stark acceptance of the risk . |
| 8 | From a distance she heard him groan , and something deep within her revelled at the sound , her lips parting of their own accord in hunger for his kiss . |
| 9 | A cold , distant voice that could not possibly come from her spoke at my side . |
| 10 | He turned from her to look at Paviour . |
| 11 | Christine 's live-in lover had confirmed the holiday dates she had given : they had travelled abroad around the date-of the murder , and he had vouched for her staying at home in the days leading up to the death . |
| 12 | He would have preferred a spinning wheel for her to sit at , but one had to move forward with the times . |
| 13 | For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care . |
| 14 | Now that Hilary was three years old , Stephen had made it clear to his own mother that the necessity for her to remain at the Manor was past . |
| 15 | She never went out of the house , but one day Charlotte brought some heather from the moors for her to look at . |
| 16 | But for her to speak at all suggests that the discovery may have released some few small drops of adrenalin into her blood , too . |
| 17 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 18 | He had only to suggest she lift her hips a fraction higher or arch her back rather more sharply for her to comply at once . |
| 19 | Eliza was now six months pregnant , and Lady Franklin extended a ‘ pressing invitation ’ to her to remain at Government House for the rest of her confinement . |
| 20 | It was a magic place and the fact that one day it would belong to her lay at the back of her mind like some deep buried treasure . |
| 21 | DAYFLOWER a strong finishing fifth in the Newmarket 1000 gns , may find conditions more to her liking at the Curragh tomorrow and I make her the selection for the Irish ‘ 1000 ’ . |
| 22 | And look at her shouting at those poor men . |
| 23 | Folly turned the card over and over in her hands , as if by her looking at it from another direction the words might mysteriously transpose themselves into the expected apology . |