Example sentences of "[adv] at [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had her key ready and he looked down at her for a minute . |
| 2 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 3 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 4 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 5 | Nathan looked down at her for a moment , then inclined his head , the movement brief and dismissive . |
| 6 | He stared down at her for a moment , then walked across to the window and began staring outside instead . |
| 7 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 8 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 9 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 10 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
| 11 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 12 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 13 | I looked up at him for a second , then smiled . |
| 14 | I looked up at her for a moment . |
| 15 | ( At this point , Meursault looked up at her for a moment , seemed to appraise her , then back down to his hands , and commented , ‘ With such good French , there 's a man in the story . ’ |
| 16 | Travis frowned up at her for a second , then took a quick look around and nodded . |
| 17 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 18 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 19 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |
| 20 | Joseph grinned ruefully back at him for a moment , then sensing the senator was warming to a familiar theme , he picked up a history of French Indochina that lay open on the table before him and sank down in his chair behind it . |
| 21 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 22 | He looked hard at her for a moment , and she tensed . |
| 23 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ she answered , smiling freely at him for the first time that evening . |
| 25 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |