Example sentences of "at it " in BNC.
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| 31 | Therefore , you should train to lift the level of aerobic endurance by selecting a training routine and working at it until your pulse rate is raised to the top of the aerobic band . |
| 32 | If the front guard hand is too far forward , then you can grab and pull at it . |
| 33 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 34 | ‘ Give me a look at it , ’ Cameron shouted back . |
| 35 | When Allan grinned knowingly at it , he said , ‘ Oh aye — this house needs a woman. , ‘ Maybe we will find a willing girl at the wedding , ’ Allan suggested . |
| 36 | We are still at it . |
| 37 | He took a folded document from his pocket and looked at it . |
| 38 | Most of all , by writing poetry and seeking to enhance his skills at it . |
| 39 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 40 | The young , dark man looked at it lying on the floor . |
| 41 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 42 | I looked at it . |
| 43 | Olive took the glass of wine , sniffed at it and downed half in one go . |
| 44 | The English pigeon devouring the remains of the couscous , without a pause , immersing its whole beak and head in the grains while I smiled at it , saying : ‘ You seem to like couscous from a packet . |
| 45 | Where I come from , if we see a pigeon we throw a stone at it . |
| 46 | I suppose I have had three or four cracks at it now at different times of my life and in different circumstances and every time I have got it wrong . |
| 47 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 48 | Let us look at it year by year . |
| 49 | I went at it with pleasure , front-pointing happily and resting on my ski poles , watching Liena 's progress with concern . |
| 50 | I chose not to buy it that day , so I was interested to see whether a longer look at it would change those initial impressions . |
| 51 | He has grasped the neat theological and ontological crux implicit in the captain 's statement , and has acted bored at it . |
| 52 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
| 53 | That is a common-sense way of looking at it , but in practice literary and critical theory has become an autonomous subject . |
| 54 | Maybe now I can get at this business of amor as of Ezra , and get at it right . |
| 55 | Worldwide , the economy has continued to come on stronger than almost anyone forecast , which is why European central bankers agreed to throw another brick at it yesterday . |
| 56 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 57 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 58 | Perhaps you have got to do this stuff for a whole lifetime to be any good at it . |
| 59 | Speak , if thou canst , and whilst thou'rt at it , Move one small pace this way to get in range . |
| 60 | She would not dispute the fact that , by contrast , the Bundesbank is very good indeed at it , nor that since inflation-prone countries , such as France and Italy , joined the Deutschmark-dominated ERM their inflation rates have been forced down to German levels . |