Example sentences of "at it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 2 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 3 | Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation . |
| 4 | Yes , and its not through yet , presumably they 'll have another look at it at the end of the month . |
| 5 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 6 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 7 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 8 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 9 | And while you 're at it with the bin get yourself a tissue as well , to wipe your nose . |
| 10 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 11 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 12 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 13 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 16 | I think you 've also got ta look at it from the kid 's point of view and perhaps I 'm wrong here but , you know when you think , I mean , the these are going to be done very , you know er i i we got a sort of time limit , and kids are going to be told during perhaps a two week period |
| 17 | Eight years on Symphony Release 3 has just been launched and Janet Swift examines how it measures up to today 's standards — looking at it from the viewpoint of existing users and those who are contemplating buying new business software . |
| 18 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 19 | Looking at it from the housewife 's point of view her phrasing of these questions would be : |
| 20 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
| 21 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 22 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 23 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 24 | Looking at it from the point of view revealed in their rhetoric , the pupils were not ignoring their teacher as such . |
| 25 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 26 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 27 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 28 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 29 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 30 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |