Example sentences of "at [pers pn] for [adj] " 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 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 3 | She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’ |
| 4 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 5 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |
| 6 | He had then thrown stones at them for fifteen minutes before ordering a kit inspection for the rest of us . |
| 7 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 8 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 9 | He glared down at her for eternal seconds and then his mouth descended and Robyn felt the anger and fire , still there , but focused this time in the searing heat of his kiss , the grip of his embrace , the rough glory as his hands roamed her body , conjuring desire and need out of nowhere , moulding her to him , showing Robyn just how much she wanted him , how much he desired her . |
| 10 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 11 | Lifting his head , Leo stared at her for long moments , then , with another of his funny smiles , he murmured softly , ‘ Take care , ’ and he was gone . |
| 12 | His expression blank , he stared at her for long moments . |
| 13 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 14 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 15 | She stared confusedly at him for several seconds , then lowered her head , gazing into the glass she was holding . |
| 16 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 17 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been hard at it for several weeks now , and have no intention of giving up now , ’ said a spokesman , who also rebutted claims by Irish politicians that Scottish Enterprise has used a dirty tricks campaign to ensure Digital remains in Scotland . |
| 19 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |
| 20 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 21 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 22 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 23 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 24 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 25 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |