Example sentences of "at [pron] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Ashton Gate boo-boys are beginning to have a go at me and it does n't help , ’ said Cole . |
| 2 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 3 | Techniques vary but it is important to work at them until it becomes automatic so that , when the time comes , you do n't need to think about it too much . |
| 4 | Being submissive is the co point where what happens when you 're submissive you keep it inside you do n't feel you 're worthy enough or you have n't got you have n't got the self esteem to rate yourself as being able to have what it is that you want , so you keep it inside and you do n't say anything and then you walk away should 've said this and should 've said that and all it does is eat away at you and it does that to you physically as well I mean scientific tests are already showing now that physically these sort of things you do if often be submissive enough what that does it pretty much helps helps you to eat your body up from the inside and causes physical problems which pretty much do that anyway . |
| 5 | ‘ It hisses at you if it sees you , and Trudy says she saw it flying over the lane one night on the witch 's broomstick . ’ |
| 6 | She thought she heard an owl cry , and the falling shape , black now and only just visible , seemed to sweep suddenly to the left , soaring , then falling , turning a round and white face to glance at her as it vanished into the gloom . |
| 7 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 8 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 9 | Miriam was smiling down at it while it squirmed and stretched , screwing up its tiny face and fists with the effort it was making . |
| 10 | I think in , in shorthand terms the best thing to do is to regard the UCCA form as a mirror , and to look at it when it 's completed and say , ‘ This is the picture of me . ’ |
| 11 | We stared at it and it seemed to stare at us . |
| 12 | I stood and looked at it and it came and rubbed itself against my leg . |
| 13 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |
| 14 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 15 | Some people are very wary of machines : " I only have to look at it and it breaks down . " |
| 16 | On one of the islands he saw a shaggy water rat ; he shouted at it and it slid into the water and swam away with only the top of its head showing . |
| 17 | In some areas this is called multi-disciplinary which is a good word but it , it 's a bit formal but it does , it 's just as difficult for them , everybody 's been used to w functioning in their own little areas under their own headings , not least of course the bureaucrats who are particularly good at it because it makes life easier . |
| 18 | And yet , on this fevered night … he stared at the heavy , handsome head , looked at it until it became a strange thing to him , a feeling of stone , a sight he saw from another part of the room , this unbodied head reflected more truly in the mirror than in the live skull itself … |
| 19 | Almost in tears , Phoebe took her breast in her hand and squeezed and banged at it until it hurt . |
| 20 | And she 'd strained at it , strained at it until it snapped . |