Example sentences of "at it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking at it other day . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember pointing at it one day and he said , ‘ Well you have n't got one at all , yours is broken . ' ’ |
| 3 | As I 've said before , falconry has always fascinated me , and I hope I 'm going to be able to make my living at it one day . |
| 4 | And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in . |
| 5 | if you look at it one way are subsidising the very rich |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry , but I 've been at it all day . ’ |
| 7 | If you could have paper things … sometimes it seems to be putting out fresh plates , eating off them , washing them , and then putting them out again … some days you seem to be at it all day long . |
| 8 | I suppose I do n't mind housework because I 'm not at it all day . |
| 9 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |
| 10 | She 's been at it all afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 12 | Right , Harold 's been sort of trying to have a look at it all week long , but he 's , he has n't really got time . |
| 13 | If you look at it that way , it 's quite interesting , unique even . ’ |
| 14 | Sloan Wilson did not sneer at it that way in his autobiography , What Shall We Wear To This Party : |
| 15 | Tom : ‘ We do n't really put on a big theatrical performance , so you do n't look at it that way , you just try and sing it in tune . |
| 16 | I 've never thought of looking at it that way before . ’ |
| 17 | So therefore we 've got to look at it that way . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose when you look at it that way , it could be considered that they have an influence by proxy , as it were . ’ |
| 19 | Three sets of four okay and you can just turn that round and look at it that way now . |
| 20 | No I 've not looked at it that way . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose you 'd call it that but I did n't look at it that way . |
| 22 | And then we could look at it that way . |
| 23 | ‘ She wanted to choose the family herself , ’ suggested Juliet , who had n't looked at it that way . |
| 24 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 25 | my height , I did n't even look at it that way er , he used |
| 26 | I mean if you look at it that way |
| 27 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 28 | At it each speaker emphasised this fundamental point . |
| 29 | Mrs Sweet had kept him at it some time . |
| 30 | I mean it 's , it 's er , it needs somebody working at it full time |