Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 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 .
4 ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December .
5 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 .
6 She had to give it at least one more try .
7 Half a dozen cutting remarks trembled on the tip of her tongue , but though she longed to hurl them at him , and watch him shrivel , she knew she could n't .
8 He told Maurin he 'd pretended she wanted to meet you at the museum .
9 She travelled to hear him at Kirkcudbright next evening , and to other meetings after that .
  Next page