Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 2 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 3 | She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing . |
| 4 | After the normal speculation that surrounds these events I was put out of my misery as she weighed in at 32lb 4oz — to say I was ecstatic would have been an understatement . |
| 5 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 6 | We successfully unhooked her and on the scales she came in at 13lb 4oz , not a monster cat , rather a kitten , but nevertheless a most satisfying experience ; at last a cat on the bank . |
| 7 | When she turned up at Buckingham University in her newly ennobled capacity she showed nothing had changed . |
| 8 | But ITN man Michael said : ‘ Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved . ’ |
| 9 | She turned up at Woolhope in Herefordshire yesterday ready to climb into the cage . |
| 10 | He says she showed up at London 's Dorchester Hotel dressed all in black , nobody knew she was there at all . |
| 11 | She glanced round at Charlotte . |
| 12 | She glanced up at Edouard , as he leaned forward across the table to make some point : the thick black hair , the sharply etched features , the incisiveness with which he always spoke . |
| 13 | She glanced up at Doyle as he returned behind the bar . |
| 14 | She glanced up at Tom , a little regretfully . |
| 15 | She glanced over at Shannon . |
| 16 | She glanced over at Madame . |
| 17 | Then she glanced down at Lee as if she thought Lee might take it as a remark against her . |
| 18 | In alarm she glanced back at Samson and saw him hit out wildly , lose his balance and crash back , knocking down the men behind like a row of ninepins . |
| 19 | She glanced in at Fergus , then turned to the girl . |
| 20 | While she muddled through at maths and science she was more at home with subjects involving people . |
| 21 | When she called in at Bloomsbury House for a routine chat , her adviser noted that she ‘ looks very dirty and neglected and is taking no pride at all in her personal appearance ’ . |
| 22 | She stared up at Maggie , eyes glistening with tears . |
| 23 | She stared up at Carrie , slapping her forehead with the palm of her hand . |
| 24 | Isabel lifted her chin , pride and defiance turning her eyes a stormy grey as she stared back at fitzAlan coldly . |
| 25 | Still gripping the blankets as if they were a lifeline , she stared back at fitzAlan , completely speechless . |
| 26 | She stared down at water foaming round a row of rocks which looked horribly like jagged teeth in some monster 's half-open mouth . |
| 27 | Absent-mindedly she stared down at Belinda 's happy , shining face . |
| 28 | She stared in at Louisa like a crazed creature , silently beseeching help . |
| 29 | She looked around at Sacco and his friends , who were sheepishly climbing down again . |
| 30 | The trust which had shown on Effie 's face , before the chloroform-induced unconsciousness , was now repeated on McAllister 's as she looked up at Dr Neil . |