Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 2 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 3 | It was a shaky whisper against his shoulder , and then she ceased to think at all , simply shut her eyes and let the hot , sweet river of desire flow unchecked through her veins and her limbs and her bloodstream . |
| 4 | She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened . |
| 5 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 6 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
| 7 | He reached across the table and took her hand , which was a nuisance ; he would notice if she tried to look at her watch . |
| 8 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 9 | She tried to look at his features . |
| 10 | She tried to smile at her mother , — genuinely sorry to have vexed her . |
| 11 | She tried to smile at him . |
| 12 | In the midst of an American speaking tour , she stopped to lecture at Depauw University at Greencastle , near Indianapolis . |
| 13 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 14 | She tensed to spring at her escort , but relaxed slightly when she heard the familiar voice : ‘ I hope I remember the stories correctly . ’ |
| 15 | ALMOST the first thing Jenny did when she came to live at Dale End was to fall in the river . |
| 16 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 17 | Somewhere in the stillness of the night an owl hooted — the first one she 'd heard since she came to live at Les Hiboux , Sabine realised , surprised . |
| 18 | In contemporary eyes the theft was no wrong , no crime ; for it was the saint 's own wish — and the happy outcome , and the miracles she came to perform at Conques , proved that there was the home where she wished to dwell . |
| 19 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 20 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 21 | As you know I visited his widow last week and she seemed to hint at pressure coming from two areas : the youth leader Jefferson and Canon Wheeler . |
| 22 | For the first time she seemed to look at him . |
| 23 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 24 | The bitch was wary of her advances and , though she condescended to pick at the food Robbie put down for her , she refused to leave the small cabin even to accompany the Labrador for an evening walk . |
| 25 | She turned to gaze at the man who 'd approached silently and stood a little behind her on her left . |
| 26 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 27 | She felt a hand resting lightly on her shoulder and she turned to look at Craig , almost unrecognizable now with his beard grown and his moustache thick and dark above his mouth . |
| 28 | She turned to look at him as they reached the park gates . |
| 29 | Farouk waited until she turned to look at him . |
| 30 | She turned to look at him , her oval face pale and serious . |