Example sentences of "at it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Metropole is a Cathedral of such awe- inspiring magnificence that no one can look at it without feeling he is in the presence of a concept beyond human scale . |
| 2 | Just to just to guess at it without sort of working it out . |
| 3 | As they approached the house , she looked up at it without much interest . |
| 4 | Of course you want to see increased road safety , we 're all concerned about it as residents and parents but just throw in one million pounds at it without knowing the effectiveness of it , I think is irresponsible at this stage . |
| 5 | You might get at it without the er where 's the instruction ? |
| 6 | Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ? |
| 7 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 8 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 9 | Milkin that bliddy goat again , at it fur |
| 10 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |
| 11 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 12 | Which , when you look at it into time and money , yes we pay forty pence flat a parcel but the girls can go out , once they , once they know their area , they know the roads and they know where they are they can go out and probably do about twenty parcels an hour . |
| 13 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 14 | Or would you eat the chocolate very quickly without thinking or even looking much at it at all ? |
| 15 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 16 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 17 | mm , erm , and he wh you know he is thinking well is this , is that the reason erm , so er , I do n't know , you know , er , I , I think perhaps it 's worth looking at , perhaps we can all thing about it and have a look at it at the A G M. |
| 18 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 19 | Erm but , at it at its worst I mean the worst publicity followed this this incident of a an elderly lady having her fingers broken and and money stolen off her by some some lads in their I do n't know late early teens I think . |
| 20 | You 've got to look at it at five years plus . |
| 21 | The NAO did , however , look at it at my request . |
| 22 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
| 23 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 24 | I mean has there been any , because there may be some argument in having a quick go at it at public protection , and hearing from the new department what they 'd like their chief officer to be called . |
| 25 | Some of you , I 'm quite sure chose to do A Level English , because you were good at it at G C S E , |
| 26 | and you thought you would carry on being good at it at A level . |
| 27 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 28 | It 's questions and answers , I do n't know , I 've forgotten , I , I , I only opened it up and had a look at it at Christmas and I thought thirty something pounds for that , a load of rubbish , I do n't know what it is . |
| 29 | Yes , and its not through yet , presumably they 'll have another look at it at the end of the month . |
| 30 | See , see , I mean if you take a , if you take a , look at it at a point of view of |