Example sentences of "at it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 2 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 3 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 4 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 5 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 6 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 7 | Please , try to look at it the way I have to — you must know that it 's an important matter because of Michel 's divorce ; if it were known , if it could be proved , that he is , ’ Flavia looked at Andrée and continued firmly , ‘ living with my mother , the divorce could still be stopped . |
| 8 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 9 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 10 | Similarly the debate at the circumcision feast was an affair particularly religious in nature , and at it the Mufti took the chief seat , even over such a distinguished , but more " temporal " , colleague as the kadi of the newly conquered city of Istanbul , Hizir Bey . |
| 11 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |
| 12 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 13 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 14 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 15 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 16 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |
| 17 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 18 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 19 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 20 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |