Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 2 | Are you like Oscar Wilde , who said , ‘ I love work , I can sit and look at it for hours ’ ? |
| 3 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 4 | ‘ Germans shit on a little ledge and look at it for hours before flushing , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 5 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 6 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 7 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 8 | He stood and looked at her for a moment longer , his eyes running over her scathingly , taking in the beautiful , angry face , the wide and annoyed grey eyes and the tall , slender figure concealed in such efficient garments . |
| 9 | He stood and looked at her for a moment , hands on hips , jaw set . |
| 10 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 11 | He took another step backwards and stared at her for a long moment before saying , ‘ This is the last time I 'll ever look on you willingly . ’ |
| 12 | She slid the geranium from her ear and stared at it for a moment , then shifted her gaze to her still unpacked cases by the door . |
| 13 | Bryan even came to my home and scoffed at me for suggesting that he and the Duchess were lovers . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 15 | I went up to him and gushed at him for about twenty minutes , told him we were making an album , asked him to sing on it and he said , ‘ Sure . ’ |