Example sentences of "[verb] at them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 2 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 3 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 4 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 7 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 8 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 9 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 10 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 13 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 14 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 15 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 16 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 17 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 18 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 21 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 22 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 23 | Look at them with a view to : |
| 24 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 25 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 26 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 27 | Look at them in a new way . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 30 | You wo n't remember them after if you do n't look at them for a week but when you come to look at them the night before you 'll be surprised what you do know . |