Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] for [art] " 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 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 3 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 4 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 5 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 6 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 7 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 8 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 9 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 10 | He gapes at her for a moment , then chortles and slaps his thigh . |
| 11 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 16 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 17 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 20 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 25 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 26 | We both look at it for a bit . |
| 27 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
| 28 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When you 've finished writing , put it away for two or three days : leave it , do n't look at it for a while . |