Example sentences of "she was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she was at the door . ’ |
| 2 | Now she was at the door of number 28 , which had not been repainted , but still Miss Statham lingered . |
| 3 | He was sitting in the bar with a drink and the evening paper when she came down , and though he appeared not to notice her quiet descent until she was at the foot of the stairs , she had seen him shift his weight some seconds before he looked up , ready to spring to his feet and intercept her . |
| 4 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps she was at the pub . |
| 6 | She was at the pub in the village at seven-thirty , but she was pretty sure he would n't show . |
| 7 | Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on . |
| 8 | She was at the bottom of the stairs , he was two steps up . |
| 9 | She was at the rectory kitchen door a week later , meeting Rose as she had promised , for tea with her ma and a trip up West in the evening . |
| 10 | Two years ago Mrs Ayers went next door to feed Ivy 's cat while she was at the hairdressers when she disturbed burglars at work . |
| 11 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 12 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 13 | She was at the clinic when it was delivered , working on some case notes . |
| 14 | She was at the gallery in less than five minutes . |
| 15 | And she was at the cemetery every day with |
| 16 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 17 | For a minute she did n't know where she was and , as she realised she was at the farm , fear stayed firmly with her . |
| 18 | ‘ She was at the Lodge ? ’ |
| 19 | She was at the funeral , Victorine said : she would go , poor thing . |
| 20 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 21 | She was at the Uni down the road so I called in . |
| 22 | She could see she was at the point where the police might be going to do some hard questioning . |
| 23 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 24 | Kate wished she was at the pantomime . |
| 25 | There never was any threat from them to Barbara — they did n't know she was at the flat because she was in her room when they burst in . |
| 26 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 27 | As at today 's date , she was at the age of twenty , as she i , as at today 's date she , at the age of twenty four , would have had a further working life of thirty six years . |
| 28 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 29 | I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’ |
| 30 | She was at the wicket before him , and because the yard was dark , put out a hand to guide him within . |