Example sentences of "[verb] at it [prep] the " in BNC.
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31 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
32 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
33 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
34 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
35 | You look at it in the dark ? |
36 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
37 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
38 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
39 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
40 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
41 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
42 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
43 | 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 . |
44 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
45 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
46 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
47 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
48 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
49 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
50 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
51 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
52 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
53 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
54 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
55 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
56 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
57 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
58 | 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 . |
59 | You might get at it without the er where 's the instruction ? |
60 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |