Example sentences of "be [verb] at [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 5 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 8 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 9 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |
| 13 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 14 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |
| 15 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |