Example sentences of "she [vb past] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In keeping with the rest of the terrain , the land formed hills and valleys , and as she gazed at a hillside Lucy thought that never before had she seen so many different shades of green . |
| 2 | Despite her depression she occupied herself with office tasks , and , although there were times when she dabbed at a tear , she reminded herself that she must prepare for the time when she would never see Silas again . |
| 3 | She dabbed at a smudge of lipstick with a tissue . |
| 4 | BRITON Susie Carswell was bitten by a crocodile as she swam at a tourist resort . |
| 5 | The conversation about oxtail had made her realise how hungry she was and she stopped at a delicatessen shop on the way home and bought a pizza . |
| 6 | She stopped at a corner-shop ( Bain 's sweet-shop ) . |
| 7 | She stopped at a newsstand . |
| 8 | She nibbled at a piece of horseradish . |
| 9 | She nodded at a chair opposite . |
| 10 | But meanwhile , I will give you a prescription for some pills which should help to relieve some of your anxiety and then suppose we say , provisionally … ’ she glanced at a diary at the side of her desk , ‘ you come here next Monday at the same time ? ’ |
| 11 | She glanced at a piece of paper . |
| 12 | I understand you have been nursing ’ — she glanced at a note — ‘ Mr William Charles Francis since Saturday night ? ’ |
| 13 | It was ten minutes before she returned at a snail 's pace with four rum punches . |
| 14 | She worked at a modelling agency . |
| 15 | The Woman was sitting round to the right , beside a television , and as soon as she saw Tug she waved at a chair . |
| 16 | She rubbed at a chalk mark on her skirt , brushed her fingers , picked a thread from her sleeve , held it up |
| 17 | She seized at a bush but I beat her hand away . |
| 18 | She stared at a watercolour of a moorland scene which hung between the two windows . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She looked at a Swatch watch which she wore upside down on her right wrist . |
| 21 | The nun was screaming now at the top of her voice ; then for a moment she became still and silent as she looked at a trickle of blood flowing down over her fingers ; and she now screeched again . |
| 22 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 23 | If she fell at a fence he could not avoid trampling her . |
| 24 | Suddenly she felt at a loss . |
| 25 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 26 | When she appeared at a ball people stood on chairs to see her . |
| 27 | She appeared at a police press conference in Derby with the sergeant 's mother , Mrs Joyce Newman , 58 , after the Irish National Liberation Army admitted responsibility for the murder . |
| 28 | She paused at a picture on the wall , a grey and beige cubist arrangement of lines and broken planes around a torn fragment of newspaper . |
| 29 | She lectured at a conference in Czechoslovakia on amber in archaeology . |
| 30 | She sipped at a glass of water , wishing she knew why she was so very afraid . |