Example sentences of "[vb past] at them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 5 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 6 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Piers looked at them with a frown . |
| 9 | Cathy looked at them with a mixture of envy and doubt . |
| 10 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 11 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |
| 12 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 15 | He looked at them like an auctioneer trying to improve a poor lot m a cattle market . |
| 16 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
| 17 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Malik beamed at them in a fatherly manner . |
| 20 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |