Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
2 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
3 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
4 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
5 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
6 | She gazed at it for a moment . |
7 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
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 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
10 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
15 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
16 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
17 | You look at it in the dark ? |
18 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
19 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
20 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
21 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
22 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
23 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
24 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
25 | Lifting out the ornament , a beautifully sculpted ballerina on point , she stared at it for a moment , then gave a faint , rather sad smile . |
26 | She stared at it for a moment , her body feeling frozen , her heart as still as a stone in her chest . |
27 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
28 | She looked at it for a long time . |
29 | So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee . |
30 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |