Example sentences of "at it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they approached the house , she looked up at it without much interest . |
| 2 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
| 3 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 4 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 5 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 6 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 7 | You 've got to look at it at five years plus . |
| 8 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 9 | I mean has there been any , because there may be some argument in having a quick go at it at public protection , and hearing from the new department what they 'd like their chief officer to be called . |
| 10 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 11 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 12 | The douce denizens of Edinburgh looked up in sudden amazement as a Heinkel thundered low across the rooftops beloved of Baillie Nicol Jarvie and disappeared beyond the hills , a spitfire hanging grimly on to its smoking trail and blazing away at it with all four guns . |
| 13 | Whatever you do , work at it with all your heart , as working for the Lord , not for men , since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever you do , work at it with all your heart , as working for the Lord , not for men ’ ( Col. 3:23 ) . |
| 15 | Jack has often wondered how the Bible can really say , ‘ Whatever you do , work at it with all your heart , as working for the Lord , not for men . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Whatever you do , work at it with all your heart , as working for the Lord , not for men ’ ( Col. 3:23 ) . |
| 17 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 18 | She wanted me to go and have a look at it with that still in there . |
| 19 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
| 20 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 21 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 22 | Well I think it 's not helpful to look at it with such stark divisions , I think everybody 's clear |
| 23 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 24 | Then they went at it with redoubled glee . |
| 25 | But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I do n't know thwarted love . |
| 26 | Would you work at it with other women , or are you a loner in that respect ? |
| 27 | In contrast , the D-32 's tighter , more introverted qualities mean that you can thrash away at it with complete abandon and still get a smooth , rich , controlled and , it has to be said , very Martin-esque result . |
| 28 | He turned towards the house and stared at it with brooding eyes . |
| 29 | She looked at it with considerable disbelief , picked up the bucket by its rim with her teeth , and tossed it aside : seven seconds ! |
| 30 | When the telephone rang , Crosland leapt at it with unconcealed anxiety . |