Example sentences of "at it [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| 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 | 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. |
| 5 | Yes , and its not through yet , presumably they 'll have another look at it at the end of the month . |
| 6 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 7 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 10 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 11 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 12 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ ’ |
| 15 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |
| 16 | And while you 're at it with the bin get yourself a tissue as well , to wipe your nose . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 27 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 28 | He kept the other galleys heaving and hauling at it till the tide rose and they could pull it off the rocks . |
| 29 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 30 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |