Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] at it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many of them have come to look at it and gone away promising to let me know — and then , not another word . ’ |
| 2 | But outside the house on this Sunday morning the usual gossip was forgotten , for Max Klein 's new motor-car was parked at the Rabbi 's front door and it seemed that half the community had gathered to wonder at it . |
| 3 | You 've only got to look at it — Gasworks standard . |
| 4 | So therefore we 've got to look at it that way . |
| 5 | I find it difficult to remember so many different things about chemistry , where at least with physics I seem to remember what things are supposed to be about … with physics you see it and understand it and it 's stored , with chemistry … there are so many complicated formulae and whatever you 've got to look at it again before you can regurgitate it . |
| 6 | You 've got to look at it at five years plus . |
| 7 | And I 'd even go , I think really you 've got to look at it as sort of immediate-term , immediate access , er medium-term investment , and longer-term investment over here . |
| 8 | You 've only got to look at it . |
| 9 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 10 | You 've got to look at it realistically . |
| 11 | I 've got to look at it today , I meant to have a look . |
| 12 | It 's like Jennifer you 've got to look at it she 's got ta keep up now all the time , honours . |
| 13 | So I sort of was called to look at it , and I said oh yes , all the people I know who have got those are over seventy . |
| 14 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 15 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm determined to stick at it , because I really enjoy my work , ’ says Lesley . |