Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 2 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
| 3 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 4 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 5 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
| 6 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 7 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 8 | I wanted to go with her to the train , but she told me to stay at home otherwise I 'd get lost on the way back . |
| 9 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 10 | Its nail was a rose thorn ; she allowed it to scratch at her skin , making a faint red mark . |
| 11 | As she walked she tore at the seal , unfolding the single sheet . |
| 12 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 13 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 14 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 15 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 16 | She heard me practising at home one day and said , ‘ This ca n't go on . ’ |
| 17 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 18 | She thought he looked at her rather searchingly , and she held her breath , for surely there would be strange untold stories about this place and surely he would know of them ? |
| 19 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 20 | She saw him glance at her gracefully curved female body , as beautiful as any fashion model 's ; but there was no appraisal of her beauty in his eyes . |
| 21 | She saw him look at his watch again . |
| 22 | He watched her climb on to the chair , and she saw him grin at the sight of her sore rump , which she thought must burn as brightly as any beacon . |
| 23 | She saw me looking at her and thrusting the bag under my nose invited me to take a pinch . |
| 24 | She saw me looking at her and beckoned me , crooking her finger and inclining her head backwards , indicating the verandah . |
| 25 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 26 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 27 | She saw it lying at her feet , half out of the opened envelope . |
| 28 | It was like a pit , and as she fell she clutched at a hand , but the hand turned into a foot and the foot kicked her . |
| 29 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 30 | Now , however , her husband had a motor-car — the first Cork Jew to possess one — and as they drove to the synagogue , their distinguished visitor , Karlinsky , beside her in the back seat , she felt she had at last come into her kingdom . |