Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 5 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 6 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She saw him look at his watch again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |