Example sentences of "at it in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 2 | Thacker had set him a spot of overtime and he was hard at it in the mill . |
| 3 | While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group . |
| 4 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 5 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 6 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were at it in the house , then in Felstead 's car on the way to the Club , all the time he was away from the bar . |
| 11 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 12 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 13 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 14 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 15 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 16 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 17 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 18 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 19 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 20 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 21 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 22 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 23 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 24 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 25 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
| 26 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 27 | 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 . |