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 . |