Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 2 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 3 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
| 4 | This one was thick and protuberant , and bent unexpectedly at the top : it looked like a cross between a penis and a corkscrew , and the little group looked at it as if wondering who would dare be first to point this out . |
| 5 | Matthew kicked at it with his foot . |
| 6 | I think you 'd get more than a t parking ticket looking at it for M O T wise if he get pulled . |
| 7 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | personally have had a horse actually had things thrown at it by saboteurs ! |
| 10 | When the telephone rang , Crosland leapt at it with unconcealed anxiety . |
| 11 | The little woman gazed at it through her pince-nez . |
| 12 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 13 | Connon poked at it with his forefinger . |
| 14 | Miss Harker looked at it with distaste as if it were a species of repellent insect wriggling on a pin , then took it carefully between her finger and thumb and held it up to the light of the candle . |
| 15 | THE SCOTTISH bar was cleared yesterday of racial discrimination , a claim levelled at it by a Nigerian student . |
| 16 | While war could create serious difficulties for the merchant class , other social groups looked at it in a different light . |
| 17 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 18 | But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I do n't know thwarted love . |
| 19 | Bentham arrived at it via his belief in the universality of reason and hence the possibility of correctly socialising man 's instinct for pleasure ; Howard by his belief in original sin , guilt and the possibility of awakening man 's consciousness of sin . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He held out his leather tobacco pouch : the young man looked at it as if it would bite him who touched . |
| 22 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 23 | As she closed the door after her , Mr Kronweiser looked at it for a minute or two in puzzlement . |
| 24 | Preston stared at it for a moment , frowning . |
| 25 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 26 | Er , and you can spend some time looking at it in your own time , I E , going at your own pace , over the problems . |
| 27 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |