Example sentences of "[vb past] at it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 2 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
| 3 | Twoflower reached into his pouch and took out a large round gold object , glanced at it for a moment , and slipped it back . |
| 4 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 5 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 6 | We worked at it in a positive and determined manner . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 9 | Replacing the phone he stared at it for a moment , then glanced at Bodie , who was waiting apprehensively for the news from the hospital . |
| 10 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 11 | Preston stared at it for a moment , frowning . |
| 12 | She stared at it for a couple of minutes , then , with a prolonged sigh , began to take them out and put them back into the cupboards and drawers . |
| 13 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 14 | Lifting out the ornament , a beautifully sculpted ballerina on point , she stared at it for a moment , then gave a faint , rather sad smile . |
| 15 | It stared at it for a moment , rubbing its arms , and then it picked up the telephone . |
| 16 | She slid the geranium from her ear and stared at it for a moment , then shifted her gaze to her still unpacked cases by the door . |
| 17 | She stared at it for a moment , her body feeling frozen , her heart as still as a stone in her chest . |
| 18 | All three of them stared at it for an instant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 21 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 22 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 23 | He looked at it for a moment . |
| 24 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 25 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 26 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 27 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 28 | He looked at it for a second then got to his feet and stamped on the eye , hearing it pop beneath his foot . |
| 29 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 30 | As she closed the door after her , Mr Kronweiser looked at it for a minute or two in puzzlement . |