Example sentences of "at it [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we cling to an outmoded view of neighbouring , peering at it through deeply rose-tinted spectacles , we may make false assumptions about what is actually available to old people , or ought to be available . |
| 2 | In it he described how , if chicks are trained on the passive avoidance task and immediately afterwards given a mild electric shock across their heads , they seem to forget the association of taste and bead , for when offered a bead later they peck at it enthusiastically once more . |
| 3 | I 'll look at it properly later . ’ |
| 4 | The Ministry , the Veterinary Products Committee is now going away and they 're going to do even , even more work on it , erm , so I honestly do n't think that , that we 're going to get much more out of the Ministry until Veterinary Products Committee have come back and looked at it yet again , because the , the answer that you 'll get is that they 're already looking at that side of it . |
| 5 | What was the precise time on that clock face when you looked at it just now ? |
| 6 | but Jack said he could n't look at it just now he was busy so |
| 7 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | The nomes went at it cheerfully enough , though , happy to be doing something . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't worry , I 'll have a look at it straight away . |
| 10 | it does that I suggest that we look at it again tomorrow . |
| 11 | We erm , given that you have to do , okay , I did n't brief them as fully as I could of , and half way through I looked at it again just to make sure I had n't missed the bottom line that said , you know stand on your head instead in the park , so I just had a little read . |
| 12 | Let's have a look at it again please ! |
| 13 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 14 | They have been spending a lot of money on training , but what they 're doing now is localizing it , so training for Oxfordshire , which is different from training for somewhere like Liverpool , it 's got a lot more unemployed , it 's now not in the hands of the old training agency or manpower service commission , and we are looking at it completely afresh . |
| 15 | Coffin had been at it long enough to know that was the way truth lay , that in the untidiness lay the answers . |
| 16 | If you looked at it long enough , it might just have appeared disc-shaped . |
| 17 | He was staring at it almost lovingly . |
| 18 | You did n't think you 'd have to work at it quite so hard . |
| 19 | He looked at it quite philosophically , seeing poaching as an irritant but also as an inevitable occurrence ; in headhunting , all 's fair in love and war . |
| 20 | Tod 's working at it much harder now . |
| 21 | Champagne for breakfast , and he 's been at it ever since . |
| 22 | I went over to look at it more carefully , and stopped in sudden surprise . |
| 23 | The professor , noting the youth 's failure to appreciate his find , told him with impatience to look at it more carefully . |
| 24 | We must now return to the principal official argument for Indirect Rule and look at it more closely . |
| 25 | But when she looked at it more closely , the blood rushed from her face and she gave a little gasp of incredulous horror . |
| 26 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
| 27 | They moved it out for something reason so I had occasion to look at it more closely . |
| 28 | Many people besides farmers have problems caused by this er tax that , whatever one thinks er about it so far as the system is concerned , really when you look at it more closely it 's the details that have been so badly thought out . |
| 29 | Now , after this lapse of time , I can look at it more calmly . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not taking off the table the fact that we keep this constantly under review , ’ he declares , ‘ and when this redraft comes up then we 're going to look at it very carefully . ’ |