Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 2 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 5 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 6 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 9 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 16 | She watched him hug the child to him , then straighten up , and now he stood glaring at her for a moment . |
| 17 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 18 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |