Example sentences of "not [verb] at [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 2 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 3 | St John glanced quickly at her , but dared not look at her for long . |
| 4 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 5 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 6 | Such contact had for her possessed beauty , and he had shaken hands with her upon it ; he had not yelled at her for what she had not given . |
| 7 | Julia let them haul her up and stuff extra pillows behind her head , but the pain sharpened and she was hard put to it not to swear at them for hurting her . |
| 8 | Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it . |
| 9 | I do n't see why Mr. Morris should n't stick at it for a week or two . ’ |
| 10 | I have n't laughed at him for years . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When you 've finished writing , put it away for two or three days : leave it , do n't look at it for a while . |