Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 2 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 3 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 6 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 7 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 8 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 9 | Can I ask when we deal with the others that you look at them in that light . |
| 10 | The other day , they 're dirty , they had n't been washed they 're dirty when you look at them in daylight . |
| 11 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She stared at them in disbelief . |
| 14 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 15 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 16 | She looked at them with distaste in their sensible shoes and thick bandage . |
| 17 | She looked at them with pacific surprise . |
| 18 | Here they were hammering with a monotonous beat , the voices high but soft , small boys staring at her as she looked at them in panic , realising she did not know the way out of the maze of streets and could not ask . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 21 | We look at them in close-up and we learn . |
| 22 | Many of the laws which seem strangest to us fall into place , too , when we look at them in relation to the contemporary religions of Egypt and Canaan . |
| 23 | They look at them through microscopes just to find out what they 're made of . |
| 24 | Introverts are more the other way round whereas they 've got narrow interests , narrow fields of interest but they look at them in depth . |
| 25 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 26 | They snarled at them as if they were criminals and took their papers as if they 'd like to tear them to shreds . |
| 27 | He gazed at them in a kind of wonder as though they were some priceless and irreplaceable treasure , then he slipped them in his pocket . |
| 28 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 29 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 30 | He looked at them with pleasure , then replaced them . |