Example sentences of "[vb pp] at it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 2 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 3 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 4 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 5 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 6 | Once the target is located , the kicking leg is thrust at it in a straight line . |
| 7 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There were two allied problems : how to keep up with and respond to the welter of material being thrown at it by the CEGB and the various government departments ; and how to encourage more people to present their own views in opposition . |
| 10 | All the weeds and nettles he screwed into the soil — and the earth took this ugliness , snatched at it with a sudden grip . |
| 11 | THE SCOTTISH bar was cleared yesterday of racial discrimination , a claim levelled at it by a Nigerian student . |
| 12 | 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 . |