Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | frowning at me for ? |
| 3 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 8 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What are you looking at me for ? |
| 11 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 12 | What you looking at me for ? |
| 13 | What are you looking at me for ? |
| 14 | What you looking at me for ? |
| 15 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 16 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 17 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 18 | I 'd like to stay here looking at you for ever , but I must stop acting now . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 21 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 22 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 23 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 24 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 25 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 26 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 27 | I think you 'd get more than a t parking ticket looking at it for M O T wise if he get pulled . |
| 28 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 29 | Yeah , getting at you for ? |
| 30 | What she getting at you for ? |