Example sentences of "at the [noun] [subord] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
| 2 | Maggie gazed anxiously up at the sky as she and Nevil emerged from the Sauchiehall Street picture house that he 'd taken her to . |
| 3 | She looked at the clock when she got in . |
| 4 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 5 | I stayed out front hoping to get another look at the girl if she came out . |
| 6 | One policewoman said that , while the men disappear when a rape victim is brought in , they all want ‘ to gawp at the girl when she 's being examined and read her statement ’ ( FN 17/2/87 , p. 19 ) . |
| 7 | Juliet glanced quickly at the girl as she folded up the stethoscope . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ She thinks more of that old maid up at the Hall than she does of me , her own mother , I can assure you of that . ’ |
| 10 | His mother Christine had left him playing with toys at the surgery while she had an injection . |
| 11 | I also think that there is n't a woman alive who would n't like to have a companion to be there with a cup of tea when she 's in bed with the flu and a high temperature , or holding her hand at the surgery when she 's awaiting the result of a test . |
| 12 | And off she went into the crowd waiting at the platform until she was lost to sight . |
| 13 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 14 | Yes , yes it is , it 's , it 's in Assembly Rooms which is slightly more gracious than the rather large er main building , and the mayor has very kindly er given the room , given us permission to use the room free of charge , and she will also be there at the performance as she is er , seems very interested in our work to date . |
| 15 | OLYMPIC high jump champion Heike Henkel leaped at the chance when she was asked to star with top model Naomi Campbell in a fashion shoot . |
| 16 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |
| 17 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 18 | She was a pretty , rather fleshy blonde , who revelled in the bohemian life of Montparnasse and enjoyed hanging round artists , posing for them , helping them to buy paints and cigarettes , studying intermittently at the Sorbonne until she had spent most of her inheritance and could no longer afford to pay for tuition . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 20 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 21 | erm , first twelve weeks pregnant so should I mark at the bottom when she types . |
| 22 | Except for occasional — rare — meals at a nearby restaurant , they never went out , sending out for meals when they did n't feel like cooking , while Luke no longer even accompanied her to the various work-connected functions she sometimes had to attend at weekends , dealing with business matters of his own or else remaining at the apartment while she was out . |
| 23 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 24 | Nor had she seen anyone she knew at the airport while she 'd waited for her flight . |
| 25 | When I met her at the airport after she flew in to London from Los Angeles recently , I caught my breath when I saw her because she just looked so lovely . |
| 26 | She never looked at the child unless she had to . |
| 27 | Of course , she 'd get at the boy if she could . |
| 28 | The American star , who was later arrested for harassing an officer , hurled herself at the cops as she rushed to the aide of her pal . |
| 29 | Sister nodded , glancing at the reports as she sorted them . |
| 30 | She had been unsurprised at the marriage since she had rather liked Elizabeth , but equally unsurprised when it ended . |