Example sentences of "[vb pp] at them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 2 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 3 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 4 | Gourmets lured them to piles of turnips , then shot at them with duck-guns . |
| 5 | Recognising our differences , we have laughed at them with ‘ There was an Englishman , Irishman and a Scotsman ’ type of jokes . |
| 6 | The thing which had been imprisoned in the corridor walls and which had gibbered and clutched at them with insane and monstrous hunger . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In spite of everything that history had thrown at them since then the Kaszubes had remained in their chosen place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd seen the stuff that was pitched at them through advertising . |
| 13 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 14 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 15 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |
| 18 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 19 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 20 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |