Example sentences of "and [verb] at it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 2 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 4 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 5 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 6 | Molly passed a cup to Cornelius , who perched it on the palm of his hand and gaped at it in awe . |
| 7 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 8 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 9 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 10 | Are you like Oscar Wilde , who said , ‘ I love work , I can sit and look at it for hours ’ ? |
| 11 | But that I must try and look at it like this : that Mama had been her very special baby — and so had I. So that could never be the same again . |
| 12 | ‘ Germans shit on a little ledge and look at it for hours before flushing , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 13 | Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation . |
| 14 | Now , let's go back to what and say and look at it from offspring A's point of view . |
| 15 | Move around the image and look at it from various points of view . |
| 16 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 17 | These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope . |
| 18 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 19 | He rolls up a dollar bill , and stares at it as if deliberately recalling something . |
| 20 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 21 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 22 | Cornelius snatched the newspaper and gawped at it in disbelief . |
| 23 | He idly pushed around the salt and pepper to avoid meeting anyone 's eyes , and then he took out a sachet from the sugar bowl and looked at it with curiosity . |
| 24 | Lord Henry picked a flower and looked at it with interest . |
| 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 | Stok opened a brown dossier and looked at it in silence , then closed it again . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She scraped her chair away from her desk and stared at it as if she expected the spider to jump through the lid . |
| 29 | He turned towards the house and stared at it with brooding eyes . |
| 30 | 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 . |