Example sentences of "she [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 2 | She read at night by torchlight , her own little door open onto the sandy hillside . |
| 3 | If she laid at dawn , like most birds , she would have to have prepared the day before . |
| 4 | She does seem to be heavier than she was when she lived at home , and she has dyed her hair blonde recently . |
| 5 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked at length . |
| 6 | She beamed at Breeze . |
| 7 | One morning she rose at dawn and climbed Ballymacadoyle Hill , behind the fort . |
| 8 | In her loud , squeaky voice she described at length the particular occasional table that had caused her present damage ; she described her husband 's hernia ; her mother 's left kidney ; her daughter 's twins . |
| 9 | She stopped at noon for some bread and cheese , and a glass of wine diluted with water , then plunged doggedly back into housework . |
| 10 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 11 | She excelled at archery and won an Olympic silver medal at the London Games in 1908 . |
| 12 | The coffee smelt and tasted rich , quite unlike the freeze-dried brand she used at home . |
| 13 | He adored the baby and would help when she woke at night . |
| 14 | But she came at lunch time . |
| 15 | ‘ Somewhat different from the Piazzale Roma , ’ she commented at length . |
| 16 | Six months after their honeymoon , she arrived at home , a cripple and a mother . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , no , she 's going to tell me about the time when she arrived at King ‘ s Cross station , pregnant , with a wage-packet in her pocket and no home . ’ |
| 18 | Tell Alistair because erm , he 'll enjoy the joke because , Emelda came down to us you see , she arrived at lunch time , out of the blue to us |
| 19 | She arrived at work at a quarter to nine and went straight to the studio . |
| 20 | The whole place was buzzing when she arrived at work that morning . |
| 21 | Stephen was busy battening down all the shutters and doors with planks of wood and eight-inch nails when she arrived at Crystal Springs . |
| 22 | Then she grinned at Nanny . |
| 23 | She had n't missed the way Ace 's hands shook , and the slight guilty lowering of her head as she glanced at Petion . |
| 24 | She glanced at Beuno for confirmation , but he looked unmoved . |
| 25 | She glanced at Swimmer of Lakes . |
| 26 | Like Cinderella , she returned at midnight . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher 's reticence in the Commons contrasted with her more favourable tone toward the ERM in an interview with the Financial Times , in which she hinted at entry before the next election . |
| 28 | She worked at home , she used to make er bags , you know , er shopping bags , and she was a very good machinist and a remarkable cook and everything . |
| 29 | From 1893 onwards she worked at home , first in a laboratory built in the grounds of her mother 's house in Reigate , and later at her home in Girton village , Cambridge . |
| 30 | She worked at Champion Spark Plugs in Upton . |