Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
| 2 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 3 | Well no let her sit at the front now Christine do n't be |
| 4 | Harriet noticed her looking at the groceries and said cheerfully , ‘ I took one of those cordon bleu cookery courses . |
| 5 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 6 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 7 | I could see her looking at the vessel by the jetty . |
| 8 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |
| 9 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 10 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 11 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |
| 12 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 13 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 14 | That was when Ruth got to know her better , and to like her better ; and a few months later , Cousin Saul had married Gloria , taking her to live at the ramshackle old warehouse on Cyclops Wharf . |
| 15 | When they saw her appear at the bedroom window , they could only assume she was all right . |
| 16 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 17 | Her twice-weekly parliamentary Question Times , where she would be thrown a few soft-balls by her own side , enabled her to shine at the dispatch box . |
| 18 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 19 | Surely they could n't just let her go at the end of the three years ? |
| 20 | ( In fact , Stalin , who shared many Romanian peasants ' anti-Semitic distaste for Pauker 's origins , supported her purging at the end of his life . ) |
| 21 | Annie must have used the house-phone to have her paged at the restaurant . |
| 22 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 23 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 24 | I see her crouching at the entrance of a hut ( olpal ) looking in at , perhaps talking to , the shy bride within , who does not want to leave her father 's village ( engang ) . |
| 25 | He had to touch her arm to make her look at the programme . |