Example sentences of "[v-ing] at them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet . |
| 8 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 9 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 12 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 13 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 17 | The temptation is to jump to conclusions without arriving at them via a review . |
| 18 | I did n't look too closely at any of the bits and pieces lying around , squinting at them from the side of my eye , wanting and not wanting to see bloody meat or tattered clothing . |
| 19 | ‘ I think we could sit down now , ’ Charlotte said in her clear voice , smiling at them from the door , and they followed her into the dining room . |