Example sentences of "come at them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Heads low , they pressed on , galloping whenever there was a moment 's calm and heat , turning away from the ice-laden wind when the ferocious shards of the glacier came at them like insects . |
| 3 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 4 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thoroughly taken aback by the superb élan of the French attack coming at them with steel glinting grey in the snowy twilight , and further unnerved by the early death of their commander , the German force now fell back . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |