Example sentences of "and [verb] at them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 2 | He seemed fascinated by his hands ; he was flexing the fingers rhythmically and gazing at them as if they could tell him something important about himself . |
| 3 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 4 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket , pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement . |
| 9 | The thing which had been imprisoned in the corridor walls and which had gibbered and clutched at them with insane and monstrous hunger . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But then God 's commands do n't make sense if we try and look at them with twentieth-century attitudes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I go across and look at them from close to . |
| 16 | We will take each of the main triggering events and look at them in more detail . |
| 17 | The baby deer nestled in her arms and looked at them with enormous brown unconcerned eyes . |
| 18 | A thin dog sidled up to them , stopping just out of range of a kick , and looked at them with what it hoped was an appealing expression . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |
| 22 | Nor did he take colleague John McEnroe to task for abusing the Swiss non-playing captain , hitting balls at their team and gesturing at them with his racket . |
| 23 | Get them written down whenever possible and work at them in your do-it-yourself practice time . |