Example sentences of "[v-ing] at it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 2 | In these days , looking at it through neutral eyes , what Jessica did was both very immoral and very dishonest . |
| 3 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 4 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 5 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 6 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 7 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 8 | Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear . |
| 9 | And er looking at it from that light it was er obviously a better proposition . |
| 10 | I think w w what I 'd urge the panel to consider is is perhaps looking at it from that perspective , to encourage the County Council to review the phasing provision of policy H one erm in terms of er how the the committed land is going to be released for development . |
| 11 | Folly turned the card over and over in her hands , as if by her looking at it from another direction the words might mysteriously transpose themselves into the expected apology . |
| 12 | I was tel I was telling you looking at it from another point of view last night of the What happens when you put electricity through a wire ? |
| 13 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 14 | The remedies , looking at it in this light , would be , in the main , individualised help or the removal of the children to a ‘ fresh start ’ with more adequate parent figures . |
| 15 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 16 | In the street a man was beating a pie-dog with a heavy stick , lashing at it with mindless energy as the animal cowered back helplessly against a mound of rubbish . |