Example sentences of "at [pron] for [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 2 | anger at ourselves for not making more of ourselves |
| 3 | Philip was mad at himself for not taking the cutters off the boy . |
| 4 | Not only will her mother feel immense unhappiness about the action her daughter has taken but there is also the chance that her father may take unpleasant measures and throw harsh accusations at her for not having brought up her daughter properly . |
| 5 | On another occasion he had been struck once by another man at work and we were furious at him for not returning the blow . |
| 6 | And he , he says erm he did n't really study that much because he was going , like , he was erm doing languages and er because they they were , moaned at him for not keeping up cos of this project , quite a few of them , you know |
| 7 | Rage at a fate which prevented her from screaming and railing at him for so misjudging her , rage at him for playing this cat-and-mouse game with her , rage at herself for letting him get away with it . |