Example sentences of "[verb] at it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 2 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 3 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 4 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 5 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 6 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 7 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 8 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 9 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 10 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 11 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 12 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 13 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 14 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 15 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |