Example sentences of "at it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I stared at it a long time . |
2 | Looking at it a different way , having decided not to attempt to save China by its efforts , there was only a faint hope that the US could save Vietnam by its example — as a successful democracy . |
3 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
4 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
5 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
6 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |
7 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
8 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
9 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
10 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
11 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
12 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
13 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
14 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
15 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
16 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
17 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |