Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 2 | Then she suddenly slapped at her apron pocket . |
| 3 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 4 | At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's . |
| 5 | I crawl , I kiss your arse , do everything — ’ She had worked herself up into a state of almost incoherent fury , like a child in a tantrum , tears streaming down her face and her whole body shaking in a sort of passion as she suddenly flew at him , clawing with her nails . |
| 6 | ‘ But that 's the trouble , ’ she suddenly flared at him . |
| 7 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 8 | But she merely looked at me , coldly , and fast-forwarded . |
| 9 | While the kettle was boiling , she idly glanced at the letters . |
| 10 | And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing . |
| 11 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 12 | She 'd called him Sage , and she only stayed at my house for a few minutes as she had to get right back to see her new baby — the owl , of course . |
| 13 | Steve asked , grinning widely as she finally dabbed at her eyes . |
| 14 | Trembling a little at this information , she finally arrived at Flintcomb-Ash . |
| 15 | But when she finally arrived at the little mews her heart gave a lurch . |
| 16 | But she just stared at him . |
| 17 | She just stared at Anneliese , her throat constricted . |
| 18 | For a few seconds , she just stared at him . |
| 19 | No , ’ he confirmed gently when she just stared at him in shock , ‘ you need n't answer , not if you promised not to . |
| 20 | Her face went scarlet and she just stared at him , green eyes wide with the realisation of just how dangerous he was . |
| 21 | Once , well after her marriage to his father was over , he had even asked her , but she just laughed at him . |
| 22 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 23 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
| 24 | She just looked at her hands . |
| 25 | When she just looked at him his face softened magically . |
| 26 | He looked at her with exasperation when she just gazed at him with wide deep blue eyes . |
| 27 | When she just gazed at him , he said patiently , ‘ I 've paid the agreed price , so tell me why , when you ought to be jubilant , you 're so obviously sad . ’ |
| 28 | first of all she just ripped at it and slung it around , although after a couple of days she was tearing off dainty morsels and swallowing them . |
| 29 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 30 | She always felt at home here . |