Example sentences of "at it [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge , I suppose , is to keep at it while somehow remaining decent . |
| 2 | There is also the danger with sending a letter that people may misread it — or just look at it and not read it properly . |
| 3 | We shook hands warmly ; I noticed that he had his old clay pipe in his mouth but there was no tobacco in it as he sucked at it and repeatedly removed the pipe from his mouth . |
| 4 | The mathematician will look at it and simply know the answer . |
| 5 | And he 's looked at it and just said well look at it . |
| 6 | Er but if not , if you are just doing midwifery I , I think you er really need to stick at it and just do that because it 's , it 's the more practise and the more babies you bring into the world the better you get at it . |
| 7 | Melissa stared at it and then glanced again round the little kitchen , trying to picture Angy 's last moments . |
| 8 | I just looked at it and then shut the door . |
| 9 | She looked vaguely at it and then said , ‘ I thought you 'd set it for home . ’ |
| 10 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 11 | She looked at it and then shrugged and turned away , and the brief light that had illuminated him spluttered and died . |
| 12 | He 'd stand there and lash at it and then expect to hole every putt . |
| 13 | Women were certainly complex creatures , wanting their own space , grabbing at it and then grizzling because men were n't crowding them . |
| 14 | What was stranger still was that she seemed stressed and worried , and kept raising her wings into the wind and bending forward at it and then letting it lift her off her stand to the top of her cage where she stuck out her talons , hovered for a moment and then flopped inelegantly down again to the bare branch . |
| 15 | He put the finger into his mouth , sucked at it and then waved it around in the air . |
| 16 | Kelly ( 4.4 ) looked at it and silently counted the three red beads , took three out of the box and threaded them ; the same with the green beads . |