Example sentences of "[verb] at it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
| 4 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 5 | For the first time , tonight , she had looked at her home , really looked at it after Glyn 's observations . |
| 6 | Just to just to guess at it without sort of working it out . |
| 7 | I think you 'd get more than a t parking ticket looking at it for M O T wise if he get pulled . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But we 're looking at it with hindsight , we ca n't just say that because of this this that and the other erm that pragmatism did overrule at this particular point in time . |
| 10 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 11 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 12 | I think looking at it in terms of an overall position , I think that . |
| 13 | Thus Betelgeux in Orion , one of the brightest stars in the sky , is clearly orange-red , but Mu Cephei , in the far north , shows almost no colour at all until you look at it with binoculars , when it gives the impression of a glowing coal , and earns its nickname of ‘ the Garnet Star ’ . |
| 14 | Which , when you look at it into time and money , yes we pay forty pence flat a parcel but the girls can go out , once they , once they know their area , they know the roads and they know where they are they can go out and probably do about twenty parcels an hour . |
| 15 | ‘ Germans shit on a little ledge and look at it for hours before flushing , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 16 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 17 | Look at it in detail . |
| 18 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |
| 19 | Er the county council acknowledges that inward investment is important but because of the nature of the local economy and competition elsewhere , I think we realistically look at it in terms of er it going to provide a small contribution to the local economy . |
| 20 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 21 | Is that really so bad when you look at it in perspective ? |
| 22 | Look at it from Rosie 's perspective . |
| 23 | Now , let's go back to what and say and look at it from offspring A's point of view . |
| 24 | If it is your first work of fiction , you should also look at it as part of your groundwork which although it may never see the light of publication , is of great benefit to you as a writer . |
| 25 | It i do n't look at it as school |
| 26 | Let's look at it as refreshment before the battle . ’ |
| 27 | Are you like Oscar Wilde , who said , ‘ I love work , I can sit and look at it for hours ’ ? |
| 28 | I think what what you 're really saying though , is that it 's probably a mistake to actually look at it in terms of a number of days . |
| 29 | I think , I think that in any , I mean in , in , in , if you wan na , if you wan na look at it in terms I mean I think labour it it 's always gon na have to be there and I think the biological constraints put the you know , sharpened device |
| 30 | He also offered dire predictions to couples ( Graham could n't even consider the possibility they might not be married ) that going at it like knives would lead to ‘ languor , lassitude , muscular relaxation , general debility and heaviness , depression of spirits , loss of appetite , indigestion , faintness and sinking at the pit of the stomach , increased susceptibilities of the skin and the lungs to all atmospheric changes , feebleness of circulation , chilliness , headache , melancholy , hypochondria , hysterics , feebleness of circulation , feebleness of all the senses , impaired vision , loss of sight , weakness of the lungs , nervous cough , pulmonary consumption , disorders of the liver and kidneys , urinary difficulties , disorders of the genital organs , spinal diseases , weakness of the brain , loss of memory , epilepsy , insanity , apoplexy , abortions , premature births , extreme feebleness , morbid predispositions , and an early death of offspring . ’ |