Example sentences of "she [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Scientific writers , novelists and poets , ’ she insists at the outset , ‘ can all be found putting forward similar views of humanity , society and nature , often by means of similar language and imagery , ’ |
2 | Without her I would n't be here , ’ she admitted at the time . |
3 | She quivered at the slide of his hand around the sensitive skin behind her ears , and tried to shake his hands off her hair without success . |
4 | Now her head dipped as she pried at the fissure of a half-split nail . |
5 | Was even she appalled at the prospect he was unfolding ? |
6 | She demonstrated her apparent unawareness of her position in the speech she made at the opening of the church hall in Kensington to which the grocer John Barker , from whom she bought provisions , had contributed . |
7 | She lived at the top of Tennyson Tower — ‘ It was that or Maid Marian , ’ she remarked , as they swung its glass door , her voice distantly scornful . |
8 | The smears on the television had gone so she gazed at the reflection of the sunlight on the blank screen instead . |
9 | She gazed at the ceiling , feeling her heartbeat and breathing slowing to normal , her body quietening . |
10 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
11 | She had n't actually intended to go in , but the window display caught her eye and , without thinking , she wandered in , to look , certainly not to buy , until she realised with a pang of guilt , as she gazed at the racks of colourful fashions , that everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date . |
12 | She gazed at the pages as Carolyn read , as if she could see the events unfolding there . |
13 | She gazed at the girl 's wild-rose cheeks and half-closed eyes . |
14 | As she gazed at the floor , unable to look at him , there flashed across her mind that image of two figures walking together along the path from the beach . |
15 | She gazed at the telephone . |
16 | Alexandra wondered if Mrs Burrows had said anything else , but she gazed at the tapestry on her lap and said only , ‘ She — she is most kind . |
17 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
18 | She no longer knew if she was happy or unhappy , cheerful or depressed , as she gazed at the infant lying in his pram , asleep in his cot , kicking on a rug before the fire . |
19 | Stunned , she gazed at the monitor . |
20 | Staring down through the window , she gazed at the icefield which was the frozen Baltic . |
21 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
22 | She sits at the table and smiles , asking firmly for a solo-brandy and coke in separate glasses . |
23 | Now she laughs at the recollection . |
24 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
25 | She gazing at the sea , he at her . |
26 | Dressed in an embroidered , peasant blouse from Oxfam and a frilly skirt , she stabbed at the Turkey carpet with her stiletto heels sending up little whorls of dust and leaving pockmarks in her wake . |
27 | She stabbed at the recorder controls , though her eyes were blurred with tears and she could n't even see them . |
28 | " And you 're sure you have n't got a hankering for this Terry ? " she asked at the end . |
29 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
30 | She trembled at the memory . |