Example sentences of "[vb past] at it [prep] the " 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 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 5 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 6 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |