Example sentences of "[verb] at it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
| 2 | And he said , he said , he said it 's n he said , he goes to me , he looks at it for about five minutes and goes it 'll do , it 'll do . |
| 3 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 4 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 6 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 7 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 8 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 9 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 10 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 11 | I 've looked at it on both sides , from different angles and colour is something to do with it . |
| 12 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 13 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 14 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 15 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 17 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 18 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 19 | He had not really looked at it like that before . |
| 20 | ‘ I had n't looked at it like that . |
| 21 | Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah |
| 22 | For the first time , tonight , she had looked at her home , really looked at it after Glyn 's observations . |
| 23 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 24 | Just to just to guess at it without sort of working it out . |
| 25 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 26 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 27 | She banged the door , pushing at it with her foot because her hands were occupied . |
| 28 | ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so . |
| 29 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 30 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |