Example sentences of "[verb] at it in " in BNC.

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1 She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror .
2 Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe .
3 Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year .
4 ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said .
5 Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times .
6 So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth .
7 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 .
8 ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on .
9 Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line .
10 The remedies , looking at it in this light , would be , in the main , individualised help or the removal of the children to a ‘ fresh start ’ with more adequate parent figures .
11 It 's just looking at it in a slightly different way and trying , I 've done some things there to show you a , a sort of a system to use , use your own if you like but I want to see what comes in , what goes out , every time energy changes from one form into another form .
12 But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 I think looking at it in terms of an overall position , I think that .
16 That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal .
17 Er , and you can spend some time looking at it in your own time , I E , going at your own pace , over the problems .
18 you 're not looking at it in the same way at all .
19 I seem to remember looking at it in the other one .
20 If you look at it in shallow terms like that you are making a mistake .
21 Is that really so bad when you look at it in perspective ?
22 Look at it in detail .
23 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 .
24 Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people .
25 But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help .
26 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 !
27 which make it easier for you to stop and a lot of people do n't have the choice to stop , if you look at it in that sense .
28 Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation .
29 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 .
30 If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia .
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