Example sentences of "[verb] at them for " in BNC.
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1 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
2 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
6 | You wo n't remember them after if you do n't look at them for a week but when you come to look at them the night before you 'll be surprised what you do know . |
7 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
8 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
9 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
10 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
11 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
12 | She looked at them for a long time . |
13 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
14 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
15 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
16 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
17 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
18 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
19 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |