Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 2 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 3 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 4 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 5 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 6 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 7 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 8 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |