Example sentences of "at it the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it .
2 ‘ No , look at it the other way .
3 Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here .
4 ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse .
5 Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) .
6 I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask .
7 I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now .
8 The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it .
9 it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough .
10 Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets .
11 Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car .
12 They 're looking at it the wrong way .
13 Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’
14 The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke .
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