Example sentences of "[vb pp] at it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 3 | I 've looked at it on both sides , from different angles and colour is something to do with it . |
| 4 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 5 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 6 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 9 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had not really looked at it like that before . |
| 12 | ‘ I had n't looked at it like that . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah |
| 14 | For the first time , tonight , she had looked at her home , really looked at it after Glyn 's observations . |
| 15 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 16 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 17 | The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed . |
| 18 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |
| 19 | The Fed is still sore from the criticism thrown at it for pushing America into recession ; if it tightens policy before official figures show inflation to be rising , it will come under fierce political attack . |
| 20 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 21 | personally have had a horse actually had things thrown at it by saboteurs ! |
| 22 | Numerous criticisms have been directed at it from insides and outside feminism . |
| 23 | All the weeds and nettles he screwed into the soil — and the earth took this ugliness , snatched at it with a sudden grip . |
| 24 | THE SCOTTISH bar was cleared yesterday of racial discrimination , a claim levelled at it by a Nigerian student . |
| 25 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 26 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |