Example sentences of "at [pron] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
2 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
3 | She looked at them for a long time . |
4 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
5 | By August 1991 W. 's condition had deteriorated to the point at which for a short time she had to be fed by nasogastric tube and have her arms encased in plaster . |
6 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
7 | She stared at him for a long time . |
8 | Charsky gazes at him for a long time , sadly . |
9 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
10 | Surere looked at him for a long time . |
11 | She gazed at him for a long time without being able to bring the appropriate words to her lips . |
12 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
13 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
14 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
17 | She looked at it for a long time . |
18 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
19 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
20 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
21 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |