Example sentences of "at [pron] [prep] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 2 | As they did so there came out of the mist a car and it must have seen the crows at me for it stopped . |
| 3 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 4 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 5 | From his bedroom window , he could see two figures beating at something with what seemed to be a bar or club . |
| 6 | He looked at her for what felt a long time , seemed about to say something more , but in the end let the moment pass . |
| 7 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |
| 8 | He stopped in front of her and looked down at her from what appeared just then to be a very great height . |
| 9 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |