Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her expression was one of utter distaste , as though she were looking at something a dog had done in the middle of the floor . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | she were parked at side of me |
| 4 | She were laughing at me Joyce when it happened to me , I ca n't believe how stupid you are she said |
| 5 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 6 | While she was trying to do this , he went to the apartment and beat her , wounding her in the head for which she was treated at hospital . |
| 7 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 8 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 9 | She was treated at Shotley Bridge hospital after the incident . |
| 10 | She was treated at Darlington 's Memorial Hospital for shock . |
| 11 | In New York she was feted at City Hall , had exclusive access to the great airship base at Lakehurst , Commander Rosendahl waiving all restrictions . |
| 12 | She was butchered at the wheel of the vehicle by her attacker who hung through the passenger window , repeatedly slicing her with the panga . |
| 13 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 14 | And when she saw him , she was troubled at his saying , and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be . |
| 15 | She was defeated at Langside , south of Glasgow , and fled to Dumfries and at last to the banks of the Solway . |
| 16 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 17 | She knew she was clutching at straws but nothing would get her up the West End . |
| 18 | Last night , she was recovering at home . |
| 19 | She was entertaining at Windsor on Saturday . ’ |
| 20 | She was nodding at Peggy . |
| 21 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 22 | Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house . |
| 23 | She was looking at him questioningly but he could see she had caught his drift . |
| 24 | She was looking at Lee . |
| 25 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 26 | I bought the dress she was looking at and chatted to her about it . |
| 27 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 28 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 29 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 30 | Oh , dear me ! ’ — she was looking at the casserole dish — ‘ stewed mutton and dumplings . |