Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 2 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |
| 3 | c I think I she 'd seen me at my worst on Friday |
| 4 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 5 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 6 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 7 | Yeah , I could n't even fight the thought that she 'd asked him at no what I mean . |
| 8 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 9 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 10 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 11 | She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk . |
| 12 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 13 | Did you notice she says she did n't have owt and she 'd left it at home ? |
| 14 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 16 | A house in France was a luxury she could n't afford , but she needed to visit it at least once — to make a reasoned decision about the future of her unexpected inheritance . |
| 17 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 18 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 19 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 20 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 21 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 22 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
| 23 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 24 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 25 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 26 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 27 | She had hit him at lunchtime — her feelings now were even more murderous . |
| 28 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 29 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |
| 30 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |