Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 4 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 5 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 6 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 7 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 8 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 9 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 10 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 11 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 12 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 13 | From ‘ African History for Beginners ’ we learn that Cain was the first white man ; he turned pale , and his features shrivelled up , when God shouted at him for killing Abel . |
| 14 | After I shouted at you for not being there for Mrs Richards ? ’ |
| 15 | frowning at me for ? |
| 16 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 17 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 18 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 19 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 20 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 21 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 22 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 23 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 24 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 25 | and , personally , I 'd much rather have er , people looking at me for what I achieved er , rather than just looking pretty on a day , I think that 's more important to me . |
| 26 | What are you looking at me for ? |
| 27 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 28 | What you looking at me for ? |
| 29 | What are you looking at me for ? |
| 30 | What you looking at me for ? |