Example sentences of "[verb] at you [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 2 | He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you . |
| 3 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 4 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 5 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 6 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 7 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 8 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
| 9 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 10 | ‘ You said they were always yelling at you from the fields , and brandishing sticks . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
| 12 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 13 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 14 | Certainly my own identikit picture of the classic nasty old git a Tory faces is about 68 , wears a string vest and the trousers of an old suit , bears remnants of a tattoo on one shoulder and comes at you from the door of a council house with an unkempt garden in Mansfield , waving a stick and blaspheming mightily . |