Example sentences of "[verb] at them with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gourmets lured them to piles of turnips , then shot at them with duck-guns . |
| 2 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 3 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 4 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 5 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 6 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 7 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 8 | Look at them with a view to : |
| 9 | But then God 's commands do n't make sense if we try and look at them with twentieth-century attitudes . |
| 10 | I 'll look at them with you later , but you ca n't look at them by yourself . |
| 11 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 12 | Recognising our differences , we have laughed at them with ‘ There was an Englishman , Irishman and a Scotsman ’ type of jokes . |
| 13 | It set him aside , he began to look at them with Barnett 's and Lewis 's eyes , thinking of them as unsuccessful because they did n't try . |
| 14 | The thing which had been imprisoned in the corridor walls and which had gibbered and clutched at them with insane and monstrous hunger . |
| 15 | He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire . |
| 16 | Female slaves mopped at them with cloths of unbleached fabric , and Alexei took one out of a pair of slim hands and towelled himself dry . |
| 17 | ‘ I see , ’ he said with a quick look at the clerk , who was now staring at them with both eyes well open . |
| 18 | Thoroughly taken aback by the superb élan of the French attack coming at them with steel glinting grey in the snowy twilight , and further unnerved by the early death of their commander , the German force now fell back . |
| 19 | If another pair arrives while his mate is with their young , he chases them away , charging at them with his neck outstretched . |
| 20 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 21 | Stared at them with his bleeding eyes . |
| 22 | The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes . |
| 23 | There were little tatters of paper at the bottom of the one by the fireplace , where the raffia and other handwork materials were kept , and Miss Fogerty looked at them with alarm and suspicion . |
| 24 | The baby deer nestled in her arms and looked at them with enormous brown unconcerned eyes . |
| 25 | She looked at them with distaste in their sensible shoes and thick bandage . |
| 26 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 27 | Lionel looked at them with faintly veiled distaste . |
| 28 | He looked at them with pleasure , then replaced them . |
| 29 | He looked at them with contempt , fumbled in his pocket and found the pill . |
| 30 | She looked at them with pacific surprise . |