Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 2 | And it was n't until she 'd finished doing the washing-up , and the kitchen had been cleaned to her satisfaction , that she began at last to simmer down . |
| 3 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 4 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 5 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 6 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 7 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 9 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 10 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 11 | So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride . |
| 12 | Her interest in cosmetics , like that of her friend Alix Bowen , was minimal , but , like Alix Bowen , she decided that it was after all a festive occasion , and she began at this late moment to apply a little mascara . |
| 13 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 14 | ‘ Chignell tells me that you want no thanks , ’ he resumed , and she caught at that eagerly . |
| 15 | My mother worked all her life and she retired at eighty three which is not bad going . |
| 16 | Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment . |
| 17 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 18 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 19 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 20 | To complete the welcome , she had — on Aunt Bridget 's advice — paid particular attention to her own appearance , making sure that if she smelt at all , it was a dried of lavender . |
| 21 | There was an old lady in it , but she quit at five to eight . |
| 22 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 23 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 24 | After she left at 16 she got a job in a pub but became interested in nursing as a career , being taken on as a trainee student nurse three years later . |
| 25 | But no , his daughter had always been a model of sobriety , good works and even chastity ( a virgin when she married at nineteen . |
| 26 | No one had wanted to believe that Paula 's beauty went right through her more than Sally did for she was a shining golden idol as well as a sister and it had been a shock to Sally when she had at last been forced to concede , in private at least , that the other girls might have been right in the accusations they made . |
| 27 | When she looked at poor little Hoomey , she was filled with pity for him being so hopeless . |
| 28 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 29 | He felt uneasy when she smiled at this : he had expected her to defend him from his accusation of age . |
| 30 | And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row . |