Example sentences of "she [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 2 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 3 | She gazed at little Ivan , bent down to kiss him . |
| 4 | Situating herself within the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition , she looks at different conceptions of philosophy , its content and methods . |
| 5 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 6 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 7 | She demonstrated at five group stores in the Osaka region throughout October . |
| 8 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 9 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 10 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 11 | She seemed at any rate , to satisfy lodgers . |
| 12 | She toiled at unending tasks . |
| 13 | She vanished at full tilt towards the kitchen-garden and the orchards . |
| 14 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 15 | She marvelled at this phenomenon , but was humbly grateful that her mind worked in this way . |
| 16 | If you become over-protective of her when she growls at strange dogs , in her mind you will be ‘ rewarding ’ her and making your problem worse . |
| 17 | Sometimes she hinted at young men , she teased him , but more and more , Parr became convinced that she was faithful — as he was to her — because she loved him . |
| 18 | The bolas spider spins a single filament which she weights at one end with a drop of glue . |
| 19 | She laughed at that expression which she had n't heard in years . |
| 20 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 22 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 23 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 24 | Two heart attacks later , she died at one P M. |
| 25 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 26 | We shall tell the full story of Charles Frederick Titford in due course ; enough for now to say that he would be outlived by his widowed mother , who was 80 when she died at 24 Warner Street , Lower Holloway , on 4 March 1902 , ‘ Widow of Benjamin Titford , Commercial clerk ’ . |
| 27 | She clutched at these landmarks as her heart soared like a kite , time day and place an anchor to the swooping light of love . |
| 28 | She looked at 100 village plans and assessed them as regular or partly regular . |
| 29 | She looked at all sorts of alternative medicine and found that homeopathy was very effective for Angela 's condition of breathlessness and collapse . |
| 30 | She looked at each side of the gate , but a thick hedge divided the wood from the field . |