Example sentences of "at them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at little Marjorie , ’ her mother 's friends had laughed as she fired aggressively at them during boring plastiware parties . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She looked at them with pacific surprise . |
| 5 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 6 | ’ Woolley looked at them with stony satisfaction |
| 7 | The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes . |
| 8 | An old man , swathed in robes , sat before the fire ; he looked up when Corbett and Thomas squatted before him across the stones , peering at them with rheumy eyes , his lips parted in a toothless , dribbling smile . |
| 9 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 10 | But then God 's commands do n't make sense if we try and look at them with twentieth-century attitudes . |
| 11 | ‘ I see , ’ he said with a quick look at the clerk , who was now staring at them with both eyes well open . |
| 12 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |
| 13 | He had then thrown stones at them for fifteen minutes before ordering a kit inspection for the rest of us . |
| 14 | For many years there were rumours of Egyptian vultures breaking open ostrich eggs by throwing stones at them at close range . |
| 15 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 16 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 17 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 18 | On the 22nd , a major German attempt to capitalise on the Avocourt success was caught by brilliantly sited French machine guns , firing at them from three sides . |
| 19 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 20 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 21 | I stood staring at them in utter bewilderment . |
| 22 | Can I ask when we deal with the others that you look at them in that light . |
| 23 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 24 | Oh I I think , I think they 're here and Mr has referred to them , the jury can have a look at them in due course . |
| 25 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 26 | We will take each of the main triggering events and look at them in more detail . |
| 27 | Let us look at them in more detail . |
| 28 | Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail . |
| 29 | A woman with candyfloss hair glared at them in open-mouthed amazement , for their voices had risen little by little . |
| 30 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |