Example sentences of "[verb] at them [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 2 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 3 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 8 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 9 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 10 | Look at them with a view to : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 13 | Look at them in a new way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that some problems can be solved with ease if only we can get to look at them in a different way . |
| 17 | He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire . |
| 18 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Piers looked at them with a frown . |
| 21 | Cathy looked at them with a mixture of envy and doubt . |
| 22 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 23 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
| 24 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 25 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 26 | POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire . |
| 27 | The temptation is to jump to conclusions without arriving at them via a review . |
| 28 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 29 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 30 | 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 . |