Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing at me for a moment , then asked : ‘ Everything in hand downstairs ? ’ |
| 2 | But Nathan Bryce had only to look at her for her heart to skip a beat , then race out of control . |
| 3 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 4 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 5 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | St John glanced quickly at her , but dared not look at her for long . |
| 8 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 9 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 10 | Such contact had for her possessed beauty , and he had shaken hands with her upon it ; he had not yelled at her for what she had not given . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I once played James ‘ Rocky ’ Mountain of the FBI in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ programme , and when I saw my name in the Radio Times I just stared at it for ages . |
| 13 | Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it . |
| 14 | Well , now I 'd know what to do but then I just looked at him for help , and said , ‘ I do n't know any . |
| 15 | I was disappointed at this and was afraid she was still vexed at me for bringing Frankie . |
| 16 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 17 | She often laughed at her for her staidness , for her virtue , for her faithfulness to stodgy Tony — who was very sweet , for all that — but they rubbed along on it OK . |
| 18 | I 'd like to stay here looking at you for ever , but I must stop acting now . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't see why Mr. Morris should n't stick at it for a week or two . ’ |
| 20 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When you 've finished writing , put it away for two or three days : leave it , do n't look at it for a while . |
| 23 | This awful pain eating away at me is simply anger at myself for the stupid situation I 'm in now . |
| 24 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 25 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 26 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 27 | A pier is a disappointed bridge ; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 30 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |