Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
| 2 | When the telephone rang , Crosland leapt at it with unconcealed anxiety . |
| 3 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 4 | But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I do n't know thwarted love . |
| 5 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 6 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |