Example sentences of "at it [coord] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 4 | But anything I do , I 'll have a bloody good go at it and take it as far as I can . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Diving at it and pecking it may just be enough to unsettle it as it makes the difficult final climb . |
| 7 | Mr Pumblechook held his glass up to the light , smiled importantly at it and drank it . |
| 8 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 13 | You snatched at it and gobbled it down , before someone else did . |
| 14 | Malpass looked at it and offered me a cigarette and then a light . |
| 15 | He lashed out at it and sent it flying down the road , away from the trio of kids . |
| 16 | While I 've still got it I can take it out and look at it and know I still have it . |
| 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 | If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it . |
| 23 | Sometimes I look at it and think it 's such a waste . |
| 24 | We might look at it and think it 's worth doing it 's interesting . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ Yes , I wanted you lads to catch them at it and arrest them ’ . ’ |
| 27 | She made a face at it and thrust it away . |