Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] she at " in BNC.

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1 When he again tried to speak to her at her friend 's home where she was staying , Mary called the police and they persuaded him to leave .
2 He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs .
3 In fact , given the bitterness the memory of Cherith still evoked , she wondered why he 'd decided to confide in her at all .
4 But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber .
5 She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse .
6 He should have realized that it was a poem that Miss Gilberd herself had had drummed into her at a Girls ' High School in the West Riding , sometime in the nineteen-forties .
7 There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name .
8 Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all .
9 I do n't know whether you 've come across her at all .
10 The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last .
11 No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died .
12 But the desire and the longing in his eyes had given her strength , and he had moved to her at once , so that she had known , once and for all , that there could never be anything strained or awkward between them .
13 He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting .
14 That much Miguel had volunteered to her at an early stage .
15 A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table .
16 He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others .
17 It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life .
18 It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life .
19 Lady Angela Hardwicke , an elderly and extremely eccentric female with ginger hair , had taken to her at once .
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