Example sentences of "at it for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 2 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 3 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 6 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 7 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 8 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 9 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 12 | 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 . |