Example sentences of "[verb] at it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 3 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 4 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 5 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 8 | That was a bit far fetched I suppose but erm you wo n't be looking at it for it is believable or not . |
| 9 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 10 | I think you 'd get more than a t parking ticket looking at it for M O T wise if he get pulled . |
| 11 | We both look at it for a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ Germans shit on a little ledge and look at it for hours before flushing , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 13 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
| 14 | Yeah , well it 's , they 've done nowt but look at it for last three month . |
| 15 | When you 've finished writing , put it away for two or three days : leave it , do n't look at it for a while . |
| 16 | Are you like Oscar Wilde , who said , ‘ I love work , I can sit and look at it for hours ’ ? |
| 17 | Would you look at it for me , doctor ? " |
| 18 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 19 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 20 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 21 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 22 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 23 | We have n't had time to read the whole story today ; can I encourage you to look at it for yourself sometime this week ? |
| 24 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 25 | I do n't see why Mr. Morris should n't stick at it for a week or two . ’ |
| 26 | Twoflower reached into his pouch and took out a large round gold object , glanced at it for a moment , and slipped it back . |
| 27 | A pier is a disappointed bridge ; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel . |
| 28 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 29 | Thus were the Cornish giants vanquished and the pile of stones erected ‘ … that men might wonder at it for evermore ’ . |
| 30 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |