Example sentences of "come at [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had come at me with a knife , I would have fought him . |
| 2 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 3 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 4 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 5 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 6 | And then when I fell and was trying to get up , he came at me with a knife and that 's when you opened the door and — Oh , Mamma ! ’ |
| 7 | She came at me with a stool in her hand — who do you think was terrified then ? |
| 8 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 9 | ‘ Shaun was getting really worked up and red and actually came at me with a pool cue , ’ says Gedge . |
| 10 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 11 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 12 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 13 | Wherever he walked , spring came at him with a rush , overwhelming him with sensation . |
| 14 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 15 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 16 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 17 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 22 | Els moaned : ‘ On the first nine , the wind was gusting , swirling , coming at you from the left , then the right , then from straight ahead . |
| 23 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
| 24 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |
| 25 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 26 | Miss comes at me with a knife and she attempts to stab me and she means it , she wants to stab me and she means it |
| 27 | And for all of us , the short , sharp shock of illogical fear ( the brakes temporarily fail on your car , or someone comes at you with a knife ) is helpful . |
| 28 | 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 . |