Example sentences of "at it for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 2 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 3 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 4 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 5 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |