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Example sentences of "at it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You might get at it without the er where 's the instruction ?
2	This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course .
3	Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie .
4	And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years .
5	Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again .
6	and you thought you would carry on being good at it at A level .
7	See , see , I mean if you take a , if you take a , look at it at a point of view of
8	mm , erm , and he wh you know he is thinking well is this , is that the reason erm , so er , I do n't know , you know , er , I , I think perhaps it 's worth looking at , perhaps we can all thing about it and have a look at it at the A G M.
9	Yes , and its not through yet , presumably they 'll have another look at it at the end of the month .
10	So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God !
11	I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend .
12	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 .
13	She leaped up , dabbing at it with a napkin .
14	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 .
15	He looked down at it with a horrified surprise .
16	All the weeds and nettles he screwed into the soil — and the earth took this ugliness , snatched at it with a sudden grip .
17	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 .
18	The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move .
19	The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger .
20	You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag .
21	His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief .
22	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 .
23	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 .
24	She gazed up at it with a deep sigh of pleasure .
25	Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally .
26	Go at it with a fast engine
27	Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed .
28	She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge .
29	She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell .
30	When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush .