Example sentences of "at it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure . |
| 2 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 3 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
| 4 | I took a sheet of paper out of the folder and held the page of scribbled , multi-coloured notes up , resting it on one raised knee , gazing at it with a critical look , wondering if Verity could see what I was doing . |
| 5 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 6 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 7 | Go at it with a fast engine |
| 8 | All the weeds and nettles he screwed into the soil — and the earth took this ugliness , snatched at it with a sudden grip . |
| 9 | He looked down at it with a horrified surprise . |
| 10 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 11 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 12 | I think on that , looking at it on a logical basis , er , I think our stuff will take up one third of the boot |
| 13 | To look at it on a comparable basis . |
| 14 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 15 | So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 18 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 19 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 20 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 21 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 22 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 23 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 24 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 25 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 26 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 27 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 28 | We will just ask you can we have a look at it for a few days . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |