Example sentences of "[verb] at it [prep] an " in BNC.
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1 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
4 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |
5 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
6 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
9 | All three of them stared at it for an instant . |
10 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
11 | When he had finished the portrait he looked at it with an expression of satisfaction and said to Indenbaum : ‘ There — that is for you ’ . |
12 | She drew a breath as he gazed at it for an instant , watching its slow movements , the gentle opening of its tiny mouth as if expressing surprise . |