Example sentences of "at it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 3 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 4 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 10 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 11 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 12 | 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 . |