Example sentences of "she [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She peered at the texts . |
| 32 | She peered at the screen again . |
| 33 | She peered at the men fighting , for the life of her not able to think why anyone would come to her rescue . |
| 34 | Turning her back defiantly on him , she peered at the timetable , wondering despairingly if she 'd ever decipher it before she froze where she stood . |
| 35 | She peered at the tangle of brambles inside and shook with excitement : there was a perfect spider 's web today . |
| 36 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 37 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 38 | She dabbed at the wound , removing bits of grit , revealing a number of oozing scratches . |
| 39 | He watched her tuck an unruly lock of hair behind her ear as she knelt at the hearth , and was pelted with a score of remembered images . |
| 40 | She moved at the end of |
| 41 | ‘ How could you be so silly ? ’ she scolded at the varnish remover . |
| 42 | She snatched at the strings of her apron , fingers fretting at the lumpy knot in the small of her back . |
| 43 | She snatched at the phone and pressed the buttons of her aunt 's number , but there was no reply . |
| 44 | She snatched at the memory but it was too obscure . |
| 45 | She snatched at the chance to make small talk while she got her emotions strictly under control again . |
| 46 | Raising her hands , she snatched at the hairpins which controlled her hair , releasing black curls in a cascade down her back . |
| 47 | She snatched at the handle and as she did so the parcel slipped . |
| 48 | She stopped at the edge of a muddied pool lapping all the way across a back lane then leapt across to the other side . |
| 49 | She stopped at the graveyard to visit the dead ; but as , even alive , they would all have been strangers to her she felt intrusive . |
| 50 | ‘ I just threatened to blow his ba — ’ She stopped at the look that crossed the Doctor 's face . |
| 51 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 52 | She stopped at the bottom of the steps and listened . |
| 53 | In the village she stopped at the blacksmith 's . |
| 54 | She stopped at the door . |
| 55 | She stopped at the sound of a car in the courtyard . |
| 56 | She stopped at the corner as the two scientists approached the doors . |
| 57 | She stopped at the crossroads that took her towards her house and , instead of going right , as she normally would , went left towards the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 58 | She stopped at the bridge over the estuary and watched the sea birds swoop over mud , chocolate-brown with slabs of black sheen like coal . |
| 59 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 60 | Theda had gone paler than usual , and she grasped at the bedpost for support . |