Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point .
2 It 's a week away she got washing at the moment .
3 She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened .
4 On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road .
5 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 .
6 She stopped struggling at the sound of her name , and his hand dropped from her face .
7 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 .
8 She 'd stood there , shivering with the cold , her already ragged clothes ripped further by the rough handling she 'd endured at the hands of the militia .
9 Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times .
10 If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ?
11 Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft .
12 She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic .
13 Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night .
14 After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese .
15 She 'd called at the library on her way home and borrowed some books on the Dordogne .
16 Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London .
17 Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm
18 It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it .
19 Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks .
20 She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks .
21 So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then
22 She seemed to shudder at the very thought .
23 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 .
24 She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left .
25 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 .
26 She turned to look at the rear clock .
27 Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language .
28 She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered .
29 She hated losing at the best of times but this was the worst .
30 Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth .
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