Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she looked at her watch . |
| 2 | Suddenly she felt at a loss . |
| 3 | Suddenly she smiled at him . |
| 4 | Idly she picks at the flap , but it is still stuck down ; no one has opened it , no one has read the book , it is still intact . |
| 5 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 6 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 7 | ‘ They found this girl … ’ was all she said at first . |
| 8 | So she laughed at that , see . |
| 9 | So she looked at Neva 's hand and into her eyes , and told her , " You will be lucky , for the sun is your kinsman , born in the same hour . |
| 10 | Clusters of actions so she looked at things like the use of the hands the use of the feet the use of the eyes erm and what she called the centre line . |
| 11 | So she looked at me as if to say well I have n't got one at all . |
| 12 | And so she rose at six and bathed , tapped on Lucy 's door at seven , to a clear ringing ‘ Come in ! ’ |
| 13 | Frustrated , she changed into her gardening clothes and went out to collect and spread her promised share of Iris 's manure heap — an activity which cleared her mind wonderfully so that when Harris rang at two o'clock she had at her fingertips every point she wanted to put to him . |
| 14 | Lastly she looked at Paige . |
| 15 | Finally she smiled at her image reflected in her mirror , a small bubble of excitement beginning to build inside as she decided whether or not to wear a gilt necklace with a resin pendant by Pellini which she 'd found at Liberty . |
| 16 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 17 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 18 | Still she stared at him , hugging her knees . |
| 19 | Yesterday she looked at her eight-pound new arrival , born at Arrowe Park Hospital , and said : ‘ It was a fabulous moment when the doctors came in with him and let me hold him . ’ |
| 20 | The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend . |
| 21 | I pulled up outside the rest home she worked at and reached through the window to open the back door for her , the way real mushers do without getting out themselves . |
| 22 | I mean he fancied having a day off to the anniversary of them dying , she had a day off then like she did at Christmas |
| 23 | She always gets to do the music because you know , like she did at that er |
| 24 | A couple of hours later she glanced at herself in a mirror and gave a rueful little chuckle . |
| 25 | Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her . |
| 26 | Incredulously she stared at Fernando 's grinning face as he took her gently by the shoulders . |
| 27 | Helplessly she gazed at him , seeing how his pupils dilated as awareness flared , her own eyes darkening as a shivering sigh escaped her . |
| 28 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 29 | Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage . |
| 30 | Now she looked at him . |