Example sentences of "at them [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope .
3 The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens .
4 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 .
5 Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look .
6 But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag .
7 We were shouting at them through the hatch .
8 From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue .
12 I aimed my camera at them over the fence ,
13 POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire .
14 POLICE had bottles and other objects hurled at them during a high-speed car chase across Cheshire .
15 Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening .
16 But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up .
17 The temptation is to jump to conclusions without arriving at them via a review .
18 Look at them with a view to :
19 He was Wearing a thick hedge of brambles and overgrown shrubs at the bottom of the shrubbery and out of sight of the house , slashing at them with a billhook while Alex and she dragged the freed branches clear ready to build a bonfire .
20 The old house loomed up at them with a shelter of laurel bushes and some lean-limbed yew trees .
21 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 .
22 Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled .
23 Piers looked at them with a frown .
24 Cathy looked at them with a mixture of envy and doubt .
25 Afterwards he recommended that the class should go over selected extracts , looking at them with a worksheet .
26 Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do .
27 It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy .
28 Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues .
29 She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion .
30 Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car , looking out at them with an expressionless face .
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