Example sentences of "[v-ing] at it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 3 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 4 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 5 | Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation . |
| 6 | Looking at it from the housewife 's point of view her phrasing of these questions would be : |
| 7 | Eight years on Symphony Release 3 has just been launched and Janet Swift examines how it measures up to today 's standards — looking at it from the viewpoint of existing users and those who are contemplating buying new business software . |
| 8 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 9 | Looking at it from the point of view revealed in their rhetoric , the pupils were not ignoring their teacher as such . |
| 10 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 11 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 12 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 13 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |