Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction
2 Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail .
3 Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes .
4 The groups flanking the god should be transposed so that the Centaurs carry their victims outwards and the heroes strike at them from next to the protecting god .
5 What excuse have SSDs for having achieved so little , despite the vast amount of cash hurled at them by successive governments since the early 1970s ?
6 The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation .
7 The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers .
8 Two passing merchants stared at them in surprised disapproval .
9 A woman with candyfloss hair glared at them in open-mouthed amazement , for their voices had risen little by little .
10 Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society .
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