Example sentences of "at it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
7 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
8 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
9 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
10 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
11 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
12 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |
13 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
14 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
15 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
16 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
17 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
18 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
19 | Maybe , but I can also , if I like , talk to my car , but yelling at it in the approved Basil Fawlty manner is hardly treating it as rational . |
20 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |