Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had a boyfriend on an American station just outside Huntingdon , and it did n't suit her book at all to be shifted .
2 She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil .
3 And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning !
4 They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot
5 Despite her fear she caught her breath at such beauty .
6 I have n't had any calls from you , ’ Laura gasped , finally managing to find her voice at last .
7 Despite the many improvements in state provision Eva found her time at social services a great eye opener .
8 Polly found her tongue at last and spoke with all the frosty dignity she could muster .
9 Lucy found her tongue at last .
10 I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was .
11 Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’
12 Rose Williams , eating her dinner at some little distance from them , turned away pointedly , curling her lip .
13 He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together .
14 As this was the first item on the agenda , the Prime Minister made her appearance at ten thirty-three , immediately after the Chairman had made his announcement .
15 Actually she lights her torch at one of the candles in the church and somebody runs her up here in a car while she holds the torch out of the window .
16 I was greatly attracted to Georgia , and was able to enjoy her company at several film shows or at dinners on evenings when neither of us was working .
17 My daughter , Dr Ann Mitchell , who got her PhD at Heriot-Watt University in microbiology , spends much of her time in the Caquita Medio region of the Columbian Amazon , living and working with the Uitoto y Muinane Indians observing their healing techniques and categorising and collecting plant specimens .
18 He 's got a Metro at the moment they 're driving around in , she drives , she passed her test at sixty eight .
19 No Greek writer travelled to Rome , and no Greek historian told her history at any length .
20 She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such .
21 If you cut her hair at eleven she said
22 Not a black day when she would n't see her father at all , but not a yellow day like Sunday , when , unless on call , he might be there most of the time .
23 In the event , Robbie did n't see her family at all .
24 She shook her head at that , denying it with vigour .
25 Sophie shook her head at this .
26 She guessed her age at 14 or 15 .
27 She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian .
28 In fact , it had hardly crossed her mind at all for days now .
29 The Women 's World Heavyweight Champion had defended her title at three consecutive events , each time soundly beating her opponents .
30 Consider a sentence like The school teacher swung her hand at little Mary who was misbehaving .
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