Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If she wants to stay at Larksoken there will be plenty of competition to get her .
2 yeah , imagine what , hey do you , do you reckon I should ask her if she wants to stay at Steven
3 In the midst of an American speaking tour , she stopped to lecture at Depauw University at Greencastle , near Indianapolis .
4 They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah .
5 ALMOST the first thing Jenny did when she came to live at Dale End was to fall in the river .
6 Somewhere in the stillness of the night an owl hooted — the first one she 'd heard since she came to live at Les Hiboux , Sabine realised , surprised .
7 In contemporary eyes the theft was no wrong , no crime ; for it was the saint 's own wish — and the happy outcome , and the miracles she came to perform at Conques , proved that there was the home where she wished to dwell .
8 In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department :
9 As you know I visited his widow last week and she seemed to hint at pressure coming from two areas : the youth leader Jefferson and Canon Wheeler .
10 Unable to bear the tension any longer , she turned to look at Ryan .
11 She turned to look at Harry and suddenly she smiled .
12 She turned to look at Derek .
13 She felt a hand resting lightly on her shoulder and she turned to look at Craig , almost unrecognizable now with his beard grown and his moustache thick and dark above his mouth .
14 She turned to look at Alice over her shoulder .
15 She turned to smile at Miguel , but he was n't there .
16 She turned to smile at Kirsty .
17 Rejecting his comforting arm , she turned to glare at Sophie .
18 Turakina glanced at her son , silencing him , and then she turned to stare at Alexei again .
19 She began to work at nights because there were fewer people working in the factory then , and so it was easier to get into the photographic laboratory .
20 And yet the painful burden of her love she ached to share at times , and who better with than Steve ?
21 As her friend Carolyn Bartholomew , who watched her waste away during her engagement , recalls : ‘ She went to live at Buckingham Palace and then the tears started .
22 On her first night she went to eat at Rosalie 's , the cheap restaurant Epstein had recommended .
23 She recalls they were quite disapproving when she chose to study at Bradford rather than Oxford or Cambridge .
24 She paused to glare at Lucy .
25 She wished to arrive at Frizingley Hall that day around two o'clock , a convenient hour when , with luncheon just over , Mrs Amabel Dallam would be lying on her bed recovering from the exertions of ordering and then pecking at her food , Miss Linnet Gage reading aloud to her , perhaps , as an aid to the digestive processes of one lady , the nest-building of the other , so that Cara might give Miss Gemma Dallam her fitting alone .
26 It must be remembered that W. was not refusing all medical treatment — she was merely expressing the view that she wished to remain at Dr. M. 's clinic .
27 She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom .
28 Like Carolyn , she had to look at Bill Kay with new eyes before finding him sexy .
29 ‘ Well , she … she told me that you were n't well and she had to stay at home . ’
30 She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath .
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