Example sentences of "[verb] at them by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 2 | I 'll look at them with you later , but you ca n't look at them by yourself . |
| 3 | The England vice-captain afterwards jokingly wore a bandage around his head as England treated the latest missile thrown at them by an Indian crowd as an isolated incident . |
| 4 | But more than that , as I have said already , a demoralized teaching force that feels disenfranchised from the process of educational change will be resistant to the changes that are thrown at them by outsiders . |
| 5 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |
| 8 | Neil Davidson , counsel for the Deans , said they denied allegations levelled at them by the shareholders , many of which can not be reported because of restrictions imposed by Lord Cullen . |