Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] at the " in BNC.

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1 For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake .
2 She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold .
3 The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend .
4 Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her .
5 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 .
6 Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage .
7 Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything .
8 Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there .
9 Unthinkingly she glanced at the clock on the bedside-table and tears stung her eyes .
10 Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ?
11 Mutinously she stared at the ground .
12 He saw how she bridled at the question , but saw also how the truth forbade her to say yes .
13 And then she glanced at the window ; the darkness outside was complete .
14 Then she stared at the picture for a full minute .
15 She used Peter 's knife to cut off the boot , then she looked at the broken leg .
16 And then she looked at the empty stairway beside her .
17 Then she screamed at the children .
18 Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence .
19 Then she sat at the roll-top desk with the magazine in front of her , took a deep breath and lifted the receiver off its hook .
20 While there she spoke at the International Gerontological Congress .
21 The voice startled her but when she looked round she winced at the stale smell of alcohol on the man 's breath .
22 Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier .
23 He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes .
24 There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out .
25 Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass .
26 Idiotically she stared at the receiver in her hands and then dropped it back on its hook .
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