Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |
| 3 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 4 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 5 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 6 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 9 | Lifting his head , Leo stared at her for long moments , then , with another of his funny smiles , he murmured softly , ‘ Take care , ’ and he was gone . |
| 10 | His expression blank , he stared at her for long moments . |
| 11 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 12 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 13 | She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’ |
| 14 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 15 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 16 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |
| 17 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |