Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 2 | She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened . |
| 3 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 4 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 5 | She wants to play at the highest standard . |
| 6 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
| 7 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 8 | This is all she has to do at the beginning of the week . |
| 9 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 10 | The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay . |
| 11 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 12 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 13 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 14 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 15 | She turned to look at the rear clock . |
| 16 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 17 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 18 | One was to Adam Russell whom she arranged to meet at an Italian restaurant in Pimlico . |
| 19 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 20 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 21 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 22 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
| 23 | Nor did she manage to swoon at the sound of Elvis 's voice or at the mention of Big Bopper . |
| 24 | Pouring out the coffee with a shaking hand , adding milk and sugar , she went to sit at the table . |
| 25 | Pushing roughly past him , she went to stand at the window , her back to him . |
| 26 | When she was 18 she went to study at the Royal School of Needlework , where she not only learnt how to identify and date historical embroidery , but also became a prize-winning practitioner . |
| 27 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 28 | ‘ She chose to go at a very inconvenient time , I must say ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 30 | Greek food , not surprisingly , she preferred to enjoy at the White Tower restaurant in Soho . |