Example sentences of "at [pron] for [pron] [verb] " 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 | He looked at her for what felt a long time , seemed about to say something more , but in the end let the moment pass . |
| 5 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |