Example sentences of "[verb] at it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 2 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 3 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 4 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 7 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 8 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 9 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 10 | I think on that , looking at it on a logical basis , er , I think our stuff will take up one third of the boot |
| 11 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
| 12 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 13 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 14 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 15 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 16 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
| 17 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 18 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 19 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 20 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 21 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 22 | Looking at it from a businessman 's point of view , it 's the obvious thing to do . |
| 23 | looking at it from a different point of view and measuring different things . |
| 24 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 25 | It 's just looking at it in a slightly different way and trying , I 've done some things there to show you a , a sort of a system to use , use your own if you like but I want to see what comes in , what goes out , every time energy changes from one form into another form . |
| 26 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 27 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 28 | See , see , I mean if you take a , if you take a , look at it at a point of view of |
| 29 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 30 | Do n't expect it to do all the fancy layout stuff that PageMaker can handle but look at it as a tool for creating automatic invoices , business forms , price lists and so on . |