Example sentences of "[verb] at it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 2 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 3 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 4 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 5 | I think on that , looking at it on a logical basis , er , I think our stuff will take up one third of the boot |
| 6 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 7 | looking at it from a different point of view and measuring different things . |
| 8 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 9 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 10 | If you look at it in a certain way , right , it shows your ignorance , I mean you 're over in England , right , for so long — I mean to say you should know what to chat in front of certain people , right ? |
| 11 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 12 | He thinks we 'll look at it in a different light . |
| 13 | Let's look at it from a different angle ; if you could change anything about your life , what would you change ? ’ |
| 14 | To look at it on a comparable basis . |
| 15 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 16 | There are two distinct types of variation in the semantic contribution that a word form makes to different sentences — or , to look at it from a different point of view , two ways in which the sentential context of a word form may affect its semantic contribution to the sentence . |
| 17 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 18 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 19 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 20 | We worked at it in a positive and determined manner . |
| 21 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 22 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 23 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 24 | I appreciate that one must approach the matter with considerable caution , and that we can not go at it in a bull-at-a-gate fashion . |
| 25 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 26 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 27 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 28 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 29 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 30 | She looked at it for a long time . |