Example sentences of "at us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that he 'd inched along the parapet — a thin one about six inches wide — and had a good peek at us through the windows . |
| 2 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 3 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
| 4 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
| 5 | Yeah he did have a good go at us through Shane . |
| 6 | The fat man looked at us without enthusiasm . |
| 7 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 8 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 9 | From inside strong-armed unsmiling men with oily tans and dirt-smeared faces look out at us without expression . |
| 10 | The shifts in pace , in tone , in level , come at us without warning , so that even as one part of the brain tries to grasp at this or that , to make sense of it before moving on , the rest responds to the exhilaration of being swept along the verbal equivalent of a ghost railway . |
| 11 | As he was moving away , he paused , and looking round at us with a smile on his face , he said , ‘ Oh yes , and a direct hit on the newly-dug shithouse … shit everywhere ! ’ |
| 12 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 13 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
| 14 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 15 | He stares out at us with steely blue eyes , his hair neatly twisted into one dark curl on his forehead ; he 's sporting a smart black frock-coat with a neatly-buttoned waistcoat and a full cravat anchored down with an ornate jewelled pin and chain . |
| 16 | Fulmars cackle beneath the waving blue heads of sheepsbit and several downy young peer at us with fathomless black eyes . |
| 17 | A nesting cormorant glared at us with green eyes , its black feathers glossed with a purple sheen . |
| 18 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 19 | Who stare at us with incredulous scorn . |
| 20 | So Julie smiled at us , in a half-proud , half-scared sort of way , that made her look more as if she was going to burst into tears , and marched up the street , pigtails bobbing , and over the main road to the bus-stop , and stood there gazing across at us with blank eyes while the traffic trundled backwards and forwards between us . |
| 21 | She just sat there , staring out at us with her face all blank and closed up , as if she could n't see us any more , and as the bus lurched forward we all waved and ran off to our big school up the hill . |
| 22 | ‘ He looked back at us with a proud , black look . |
| 23 | Even the hardened faggots of Manhattan ( I fancied ) were gazing down at us with concern from their lofts and condos and thinking — we 're pretty brazen , God knows , but these guys , they 'll queer the whole pitch . |
| 24 | squinting at us with unspeakable pleasure , |
| 25 | ‘ He lunged at us with a knife . |
| 26 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |
| 27 | And it 's weird ; it 's almost as if the European press is mad at us for ‘ taking their David away ’ , or something . |
| 28 | " Your anthropologists laugh at us for saying we came from the stars . |
| 29 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 30 | We have values of 80 per cent thrown at us for a fish which , when feeding on natural food , ingests about 80 per cent water and around 7 per cent protein ! |