Example sentences of "at they [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 | For many years there were rumours of Egyptian vultures breaking open ostrich eggs by throwing stones at them at close range . |
| 12 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I stood staring at them in utter bewilderment . |
| 16 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A woman with candyfloss hair glared at them in open-mouthed amazement , for their voices had risen little by little . |
| 20 | Two passing merchants stared at them in surprised disapproval . |
| 21 | What excuse have SSDs for having achieved so little , despite the vast amount of cash hurled at them by successive governments since the early 1970s ? |
| 22 | Their position is made the more disadvantaged because of the hostility directed at them by white society . |