Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [pers pn] 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 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 7 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 8 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 11 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He stared down at the whimpering person beyond the front of the cage , at the people around , at the Man staring at him for a moment , and then at Woil who had taken stance on a litter bin . |
| 16 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 17 | After staring at her for a few seconds in silence , he finally nodded and went out , leaving her to dress . |
| 18 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 19 | After staring at it for a minute the client pointed at the picture and exclaimed angrily , " I do n't like that bean . " |
| 20 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 21 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 22 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 23 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 26 | He went on gazing at me for a moment , then asked : ‘ Everything in hand downstairs ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The boy was standing there , smiling at him for the second time that day . |
| 29 | He shrugged , leaning back in his chair , smiling at her for the first time with that devastating smile which made her heart beat faster . |