Example sentences of "at [pers pn] for [det] " 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 | She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’ |
| 3 | Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention . |
| 4 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 5 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 6 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 7 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 8 | She stared confusedly at him for several seconds , then lowered her head , gazing into the glass she was holding . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 13 | 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 . |