Example sentences of "she [verb] at [det] " 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 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 3 | She shouted at those waiting about how she had been unjustly treated . |
| 4 | My mother sighed as she peered at those crowding white sails and topgallants : ‘ If only he were here to see that ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Chignell tells me that you want no thanks , ’ he resumed , and she caught at that eagerly . |
| 6 | She says she feels neglected when she looks at all the visitors Mum gets . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 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 just like thought he was , being a carpenter or something , and this brother , erm , her brother did n't know that she sung at all , so it all turns out to be a big surprise . |
| 13 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |
| 14 | She smiles at that . |
| 15 | She smiles at those she recognizes . |
| 16 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 17 | She marvelled at this phenomenon , but was humbly grateful that her mind worked in this way . |
| 18 | Her interest in cosmetics , like that of her friend Alix Bowen , was minimal , but , like Alix Bowen , she decided that it was after all a festive occasion , and she began at this late moment to apply a little mascara . |
| 19 | I do not think she benefited at all financially — if she did it was a very small amount — and would n't have been able to keep any of the furniture had it not been for the kindness of Aunt Mary . |
| 20 | She blinked at that , something she did so rarely that it was noticeable . |
| 21 | She laughed at that expression which she had n't heard in years . |
| 22 | So she laughed at that , see . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 28 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 29 | She clutched at these landmarks as her heart soared like a kite , time day and place an anchor to the swooping light of love . |
| 30 | It was odd , she thought , how if one was alone , one leant to things , inanimate things ; trees , streams , flowers ; felt they expressed one ; felt they became one ; felt they knew one , in a sense were one ; felt an irrational tenderness thus ( she looked at that long steady light ) as for oneself' . |