Example sentences of "[verb] at it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 2 | Well you see that you see , she probably looks at it every day and thinks , oh hideous ! |
| 3 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 4 | Looking at it a different way , having decided not to attempt to save China by its efforts , there was only a faint hope that the US could save Vietnam by its example — as a successful democracy . |
| 5 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 6 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 7 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 8 | Look at it every day . |
| 9 | If you look at it every ten minutes you notice it 's |
| 10 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 11 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 12 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 13 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 14 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 15 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |
| 16 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 17 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 18 | And he 'd have to look at it every day . |
| 19 | Please , try to look at it the way I have to — you must know that it 's an important matter because of Michel 's divorce ; if it were known , if it could be proved , that he is , ’ Flavia looked at Andrée and continued firmly , ‘ living with my mother , the divorce could still be stopped . |
| 20 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
| 21 | He stared at it a moment , then handed it across to Karr . |
| 22 | He stared at it a moment , then looked up at her . |
| 23 | He stared at it a while , feeling hollow , emptied of all feeling , then looked away sharply , bitter with himself . |
| 24 | I stared at it a long time . |
| 25 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 26 | I looked at it an I said that 's French . |
| 27 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 28 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 29 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 30 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |