Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 2 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 3 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 4 | No I was talking to Julie yesterday , she phoned me up at the |
| 5 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 6 | and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ? |
| 7 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 8 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
| 9 | She rubbed her back at the same time ; bending to the floor had hurt her . |
| 10 | That had to be a good thing as far as she was concerned , she told herself , so therefore she took him exactly at his word . |
| 11 | She took him up at once . |
| 12 | No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all . |
| 13 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 14 | ‘ Yesterday Margrida was saying that when she saw us together at the lunch she felt we shared an affinity , ’ Ashley recalled . |
| 15 | She picked it up at the third ring . |
| 16 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |