Example sentences of "[verb] at it with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , gradually , her ideas would come together until , sitting on a stretch of grass and stabbing at it with the end of her parasol , she would repeat to herself , ‘ Oh God , why did I get married ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin . |
| 3 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 4 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 7 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 8 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 9 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 10 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 11 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 12 | You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag . |
| 13 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 14 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When he had finished the portrait he looked at it with an expression of satisfaction and said to Indenbaum : ‘ There — that is for you ’ . |
| 17 | Go at it with a fast engine |
| 18 | I took a sheet of paper out of the folder and held the page of scribbled , multi-coloured notes up , resting it on one raised knee , gazing at it with a critical look , wondering if Verity could see what I was doing . |
| 19 | All the weeds and nettles he screwed into the soil — and the earth took this ugliness , snatched at it with a sudden grip . |
| 20 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 21 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |