Example sentences of "[vb past] at them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 2 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 3 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |
| 4 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 5 | Heads low , they pressed on , galloping whenever there was a moment 's calm and heat , turning away from the ice-laden wind when the ferocious shards of the glacier came at them like insects . |
| 6 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 7 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 8 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 9 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 10 | They snarled at them as if they were criminals and took their papers as if they 'd like to tear them to shreds . |
| 11 | He stared at them without speaking , conveying his meaning by the blank coldness of his gaze . |
| 12 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 13 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 14 | Before doing so , Father Duryea stared at them for many arduous minutes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Stared at them with his bleeding eyes . |
| 17 | The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes . |
| 18 | She stared at them in disbelief . |
| 19 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 20 | Adults stared at them in not altogether dumb , but spluttering amazement . |
| 21 | Two passing merchants stared at them in surprised disapproval . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The baby deer nestled in her arms and looked at them with enormous brown unconcerned eyes . |
| 24 | She looked at them with distaste in their sensible shoes and thick bandage . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Lionel looked at them with faintly veiled distaste . |
| 27 | He looked at them with pleasure , then replaced them . |
| 28 | He looked at them with contempt , fumbled in his pocket and found the pill . |
| 29 | She looked at them with pacific surprise . |
| 30 | A thin dog sidled up to them , stopping just out of range of a kick , and looked at them with what it hoped was an appealing expression . |