Example sentences of "coming at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know where these guys are coming at me from . |
| 2 | I lit up and stood there trying to answer all the questions coming at me in French and English . |
| 3 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 4 | Is that all you can say ? ’ she flared , coming at him with her hand rising to strike . |
| 5 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 6 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 7 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 8 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 13 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 14 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 15 | ‘ Coming at you at a hundred miles an hour , all the way from the beautiful UK , 4AD recording artistes , LUSH ! ’ |
| 16 | Yeah if you , if you 're coming up you dare n't stop the driver and there 's things hurtling at ya , there 's kids on sledges coming at you at about fifteen miles an hour and you 'll have to try and drive around them and |
| 17 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
| 18 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 19 | In and out , on and off , they 're coming at us from all sides . |