Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 3 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 4 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 5 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 6 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 7 | Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him . |
| 8 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 9 | Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs . |
| 10 | You ass what did you want to start hacking at it for ? |
| 11 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 12 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 13 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 14 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 17 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 18 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 19 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 20 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 21 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 22 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 27 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
| 28 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 29 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |