Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were propelled at them like stones from a sling : a direct hit would have killed a bear . |
| 2 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 3 | We were shouting at them through the hatch . |
| 4 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 8 | Joe followed his mother into the room , and they stood looking at Martin , who had his back to the empty grate now and was staring at them as if he was n't seeing them . |
| 9 | He 'd seen the stuff that was pitched at them through advertising . |