Example sentences of "at it all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep on looking at it all the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry , but I 've been at it all day . ’ |
| 3 | Of course , when I look back at it all now , the thought terrifies me ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm looking at it all very positively , ’ she says , ‘ because auditing is n't for me anyway — and the partners knew that , which is how they chose who to make redundant . |
| 5 | She had stood outside the huge pillars of University College , Dublin , and looked at it all with satisfaction . |
| 6 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 7 | Ben had even been at it all through the war . |
| 8 | My first impressions were an exciting mixture of scenes that seemed familiar but were so different in detail : I could n't wait to get a closer look at it all ! |
| 9 | If you could have paper things … sometimes it seems to be putting out fresh plates , eating off them , washing them , and then putting them out again … some days you seem to be at it all day long . |
| 10 | I suppose I do n't mind housework because I 'm not at it all day . |
| 11 | He fed it lots of oil and wiped at it all the time with an oily rag so it shone . |
| 12 | The more conscientious among her readers would at these words stop and think , knowing that they too could , if they were clever enough , look at it all in the right way . |
| 13 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 14 | She 's been at it all afternoon . ’ |
| 15 | you 've got to , you 've got to be at it all the time . |
| 16 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 17 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 18 | The fear of governments always is that if people are not occupied playing competitive sports or watching TV they will be at it all the time . |
| 19 | It is easier to divide up s.22 than to look at it all at once . |
| 20 | She gazed in awe at it all before turning to him . |
| 21 | Oh I I was alright but I did n't feel er tired at it all you know . |
| 22 | one ball hanging out like like I mean you could n't help looking at it all the time |
| 23 | Look at it all here , brightening up . |
| 24 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |
| 25 | Right , Harold 's been sort of trying to have a look at it all week long , but he 's , he has n't really got time . |
| 26 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 27 | Sal , I du n no I have n't looked at it all . |
| 28 | He was like just being an adviser , he was n't like trying to design it , and I looked at it all for a long time and I said Bembo , which I had never heard of . |