Example sentences of "at it " in BNC.
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| 1 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 2 | In her mind there was a set of events which includes reading about a work of art and looking at it . |
| 3 | You forget that it is a picture as you look at it … |
| 4 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 5 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 6 | These books and plays and films reveal a humanity which surmounts , as has been said , the hardship and brutality they describe — surmounts it , as a rule , by laughing at it . |
| 7 | Film stars are real and all first class with big faces — and they 're good at it . |
| 8 | We had to do four pieces with different accents and a piece of real sight reading of poetry without any time to look at it . |
| 9 | Auditioning makes me very nervous but sight reading — maybe because I 'm better at it — inspires me with more confidence . |
| 10 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 11 | Sat through the night and looked at it . |
| 12 | Today , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , the glass will stand in a gallery , lit by artificial light , with no right and no wrong way of looking at it , no left and no right hand , no salvation or damnation . |
| 13 | I look at it and I do n't even see it . |
| 14 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 15 | Having stuck at it . |
| 16 | as if I was holding the thought in my hands , looking at it , turning it about . |
| 17 | Now all these other eyes have looked at it I feel different about it . |
| 18 | If you look at it in shallow terms like that you are making a mistake . |
| 19 | He was indeed good at it . |
| 20 | I stood there staring at it for a moment , unable to believe what I saw . |
| 21 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 22 | ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so . |
| 23 | Curious , I went up the path to have a look at it and I discovered to my no great surprise that it marked the entrance to a churchyard . |
| 24 | Looking at it realistically , I think I 'll either go back into the museum side of things or carry on with what I 'm doing now . |
| 25 | ‘ At least you 're good at it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Les Misérables was quite complicated , so I 'd actually quite like a second go at it . |
| 27 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 28 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 29 | We 're both very bad at it and I 'm damned if I 'm losing my best friend . ’ |
| 30 | She 's terribly good at it , is n't she ? |