Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 2 | She flung it at him over her shoulder in the hallway before walking into the lounge , choking on the bitterness of knowing that his belief had come too late . |
| 3 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 4 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |
| 5 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 6 | And she wagged it at him , saying , ‘ You are an infant . |
| 7 | A pang of yearning stabbed her , but she banished it at once . |
| 8 | Ashi smiled as she knotted it at her throat . |
| 9 | She draped it at my neck and sprayed it with her perfume : it still smells faintly of Chanel . |
| 10 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 11 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 12 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 13 | all the same , that she wants me at home , though she does n't like me , and she could never admit that she might need me … " |
| 14 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 15 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 16 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 17 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |
| 18 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 19 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 20 | As he entered the shop the young girl assistant came forward ; she recognised him at once . |
| 21 | ‘ It is ; she does these things well — but why the hell does she do them at all ? ’ |
| 22 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 23 | My mother 's in despair — says she ca n't look her MP in the face when she meets him at Church . |
| 24 | She rejected him at birth and it was left to Maria Fountain from the Cotswold Wildlife Park to take on the role of Mother . |
| 25 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 26 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 27 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 28 | ( 26 ) Dare she ring him at the office ? |
| 29 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 30 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |