Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 2 | I give a little laugh and Peter looks over at me and hits it again , harder this time . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Police surgeons have looked at him and said it 's safe to detain him in a police cell . ’ |
| 4 | He had noticed the eyes of one or two French matrons stray wistfully to the tall , spectacularly handsome figure of his brother , and as the rickshaws bowled on side by side he darted a glance at him and decided it must be his new blond mustache that set him apart . |
| 5 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 6 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 7 | But anything I do , I 'll have a bloody good go at it and take it as far as I can . |
| 8 | ‘ I was staring at it and wishing it to tip and then my eyes went all hot and funny and some sort of power came out of them and the glass just toppled over . ’ |
| 9 | Diving at it and pecking it may just be enough to unsettle it as it makes the difficult final climb . |
| 10 | Mr Pumblechook held his glass up to the light , smiled importantly at it and drank it . |
| 11 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 12 | Erm , and Chris had a look at it and said it 's not the phone it 's your line , so she had to have the , the G P O people in . |
| 13 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 14 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 15 | You snatched at it and gobbled it down , before someone else did . |
| 16 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 17 | They stood before the dressing table for a while , looking at it and discussing it , apparently , but eventually just turned it round so that it faced the wrong way , rather than turn it upside down . |
| 18 | Magee took one , glanced at it and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 19 | first of all she just ripped at it and slung it around , although after a couple of days she was tearing off dainty morsels and swallowing them . |
| 20 | so but I agree , I mean you could start trying to look at it and cost it |
| 21 | It can also be spectacularly successful , though , if you work at it and get it right . |
| 22 | Sometimes I look at it and think it 's such a waste . |
| 23 | We might look at it and think it 's worth doing it 's interesting . |
| 24 | If you pop an empty plastic bottle with the top screwed on into the tub , she will try to take swipes at it and watch it bob about . |
| 25 | She made a face at it and thrust it away . |
| 26 | ‘ I jest looked at 'em and done it . ’ |
| 27 | , writes : OUR COLLEGE lecturer waved a cane at us and said it was ‘ a talking stick ’ but he did n't seem to know its origin . |